what were the major causes of the conflict between English authorities and colonists?(1636-1739)
Class Struggles
immigrants were at the top or bottom
no in-between
no class structure
middle class influenced your title
The First Great Awakening~1739-1744
protestant evangelism
the ability to branch out of your religion
Tax supported churches
George Whitefield
helped lead the people to the awkening
they started to see everyone was equal in the eyes of God
more freedom to religion
the church of england ran the church
groups started to believe there wasn't one church
regular townsfolk found they were still able to talk to God
leaving the church meant you were challenging authority and God
gained power so they challenged government
he was supposed to be from God
development of religious toleration
Bacon's Rebellion 1676
Stono Rebellion 1739
motive:
florida promised protection to slaves that escaped
over 100 slaves
led by slaves that escaped
he died of an "illness"
whiteness
classified by race/color
classified no longer by class or money
burned down Jamestown
bacon's army was mad at the govenor
King Phillip's War-1675
mass slaughtering of native americans
CAUSE: change of identity
new identity
based on survival
not based on class
Englishman turned to colonists
