Colonial America

Home > Other > Colonial America > Page 96
Colonial America Page 96

by Richard Middleton, Anne Lombard


  Peters, Richard

  Petuns

  Philadelphia

  foundation

  pre-eminence as trading center

  silver industry

  indentured servants

  eighteenth-century wealth

  standard of living

  equality

  businesswomen

  first presbytery formed

  libraries

  Academy of Philadelphia

  Whitefield preaches in

  education

  newspapers

  interest in science

  opposition to slavery

  in eighteenth century

  local government

  politics

  Philip, King (Native American)

  Philip II, king of Spain

  Philippines

  Philipse, Adolphe

  Philipse, Frederick

  Phips, Sir William

  Pickawillany

  Pierce, Captain

  Piercy, Abraham

  Pietists

  pigs see hogs

  Pilgrims

  Pinckney, Eliza Lucas

  pirates see privateers and pirates

  Piscataways

  pitch and tar

  Pitt, William

  Pittsburgh (Fort Duquesne)

  Pizarro, Francisco de

  plantations

  Ploughman, Matthew

  Plymouth: foundation and early days

  becomes part of United Colonies

  relations with Native Americans

  reaction to and effects of Restoration

  and King Philip's War

  merged into Dominion of New England by James II

  incorporated into Massachusetts

  Plymouth Company (later Council for New England)

  Pocahontas

  Poducks

  Pokanokets

  political organization: Native American

  western European

  early English colonies

  New England

  New France

  New Netherland

  Maryland

  West Indies

  New York

  relationship between Crown and colonies under Charles II

  Carolinas

  Virginian voting rights curtailed

  Massachusetts struggles with Crown over validity of charter

  Pennsylvania's charter marks increase in power of Crown and Parliament

  Pennsylvania's frame of government and charter of liberties

  Crown's creation of Dominion of New England leads to struggles

  Glorious Revolution alleviates situation but retains some Crown powers

  Crown administration in New York

  proprietary government overthrown in Maryland

  beginnings of shared colonial rhetoric of rights

  Parliament's growing role as colonial administrator

  William and Mary's colonial policy

  Board of Trade created to manage colonial affairs

  Carolinas oust proprietary officials

  political strife in Pennsylvania leads to changes in government style

  New Jersey

  New France

  changes in Native American structures in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

  Georgia

  overview of developments after 1690

  local government

  disputes between Crown and colonies

  provincial assemblies

  political parties and factions

  rewards for colonial elites

  nationality of colonial officeholders

  constitutional relationship between Crown and assemblies

  development of republicanism

  Albany Congress constitutes landmark in colonial cooperation

  Franklin draws up plan for colonial union for defense

  challenge to Great Britain of governing extended American territories after French and Indian War

  see also bills of rights; democracy, development of

  Pomeiock

  Ponce de León, Juan

  Pontiac's Rebellion (1763)

  Popé

  Pope's Day

  Popham, Sir George

  population: precontact Native American

  western European

  colonial

  growth in African American

  New France

  Louisiana

  Texas

  urban opposed to rural

  Port Royal, Nova Scotia

  Porter, Israel

  Porto Bello

  Portsmouth, New Hampshire

  Portugal: exploration and colonization

  Spanish takeover

  Pory, John

  Potawatomis

  Potomac River

  Potomacs

  pottery see ceramics

  poultry

  poverty

  see also social welfare

  Powhatan (Wahunsonacock), Chief

  Powhatan Confederacy: rise

  location

  with Virginia

  1622 massacre

  destruction

  Pownall, Thomas

  Presbyterians

  Presque Isle

  Prideaux, General

  Princeton (formerly College of New Jersey)

  printing

  privateers and pirates: in sixteenth century

  in seventeenth century

  in eighteenth century

  Proclamation of 1763

  Proctor, Elizabeth

  Proctor, John

  property rights: European and Native American concepts compared

  English women's compared with Dutch women's

  colonial women

  free African Americans

  French colonial women

  see also land ownership

  protectionism

  Protestant work ethic

  Providence, Rhode Island

  publishing

  Pueblo Indians

  Pueblo Revolt (1680)

  Puerto Rico

  Punkapaug

  Puritans: reasons for wanting to emigrate

  establishment of colonies

  beliefs and practices

  political organization in Massachusetts

  New England schism

  church government in Massachusetts

  clergy training

  and Restoration religious settlement

  worries that growing colonial wealth will decrease religious zeal

  growing religious dissent

  Half-Way Covenant allows for baptism of children of non-elect

  reaction to Andros's attempt to introduce toleration in Massachusetts

  attitude to witches

  attitude to childrearing

  sexual mores

  women's lives

  attitude to music

  attitude to holidays

  Putnam, Ann

  Putnam, Thomas

  Pynchon, John

  Pynchon, William

  Quakers: beliefs and practices

  first arrivals in America

  in New Netherland

  and Restoration settlement

  Puritan persecution

  and Pennsylvania

  Keithian Schism

  rural suspicion of

  unhappiness in Carolinas

  manufacturing skills

  ethical approach to business

  average marriage age

  attitude to childrearing

  families

  women's lives

  attitude to marriage

  treatment in New England in eighteenth century

  attitude to education

  interest in science

  attitude to slavery

  and oaths

  talk of disenfranchising in Pennsylvania

  and New Jersey politics

  and Pennsylvania politics

  Quapaws

  Québec

  missions

  early days

  Eng
lish capture (1629)

  English attacks

  growth and trade

  Wolfe takes (1759)

  Queen Anne's War see Spanish Succession, War of the

  quo warranto proceedings: definition

  race issues: interracial marriage and sexual relations

  development of concept of “white people,”

  see also Native Americans; slavery and slave trade

  racism: origins and development of concept

  Rale, Father Sébastien

  Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Ramón, Captain Domingo

  Randolph, Edward

  rape

  Raritan Valley

  Red River

  refinement

  Reformation

  Regulator movement

  religion: precontact

  Reformation

  role in England's foreign policy

  role in colonization

  as driver of colonization

  role in New England government

  attempted conversion of Native Americans

  preference of Native Americans for Catholic over Protestant practices

  Dutch policy of religious toleration

  role in establishment of Maryland

  Maryland passes toleration act

  Restoration settlement and its effects

  New York's toleration

  conversion of Native Americans continues

  toleration in Carolinas

  growing dissent in Massachusetts

  Native American resentment of missionary activity

  some Native American converts sold into slavery

  toleration in Pennsylvania

  Andros tries to introduce toleration in Massachusetts

  James II attempts to reverse Reformation

  toleration restricted in Massachusetts

  dissension in Carolinas

  Spanish missions

  spiritual education

  developments after Glorious Revolution

  some measure of toleration in England

  Great Awakening

  churches' role in education

  churches' role in spread of libraries

  church music

  Sabbath entertainments

  slaves

  female religious communities

  English missions to Native Americans

  converted Native Americans in New France

  as driver of eighteenth-century immigration

  persecution of dissenters in Ireland

  growing dissension after 1740

  Catholics' voting rights

  Maryland fears of Catholics

  religious dissent's influence on growth of republicanism

  see also individual sects and religions

  republicanism, development of

  reservations

  reserves

  Restoration

  Revere, Paul: drawings by

  revivalism see Great Awakening

  Rhode Island: establishment

  and Pequot War

  left out of United Colonies

  charter confirmed

  reaction to and effect of Restoration

  and King Philip's War

  conflict with James II

  joins Dominion of New England

  Glorious Revolution settlement returns charter

  Bellomont made commander of militia

  and slave trade

  religious toleration in

  politics after 1690

  voting rights

  intercolonial conflicts

  attends Albany Congress

  Ribaut, Jean

  rice

  Richardson, Samuel

  rights: in seventeenth century

  beginnings of shared colonial rhetoric of rights

  civil rights denied to blacks

  see also bills of rights; property rights

  Rio de Janeiro

  Rio Grande

  Rittenhouse, David

  Roanoke Island

  Roberts, Widow

  Robie, Thomas

  Robinson, John

  Rogers's Rangers

  Rolfe, John

  Roman Catholics: persecution in England

  establishment of Maryland

  converted Native Americans in New France

  colonial attitude to

  James II attempts to bring to power in England

  Spanish missions to Native Americans

  excluded from toleration in Pennsylvania

  Pope's Day demonstrations against

  animosity of Carolinians to Spanish Catholics

  immigrants not welcome

  voting rights

  Maryland fears of

  see also Jesuits

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rousby, Christopher

  Rowlandson, Mary

  Roxbury

  Royal Africa Company

  Royal Navy: and trade protection

  and piracy

  at Cartagena

  and War of Jenkins' Ear

  and invasion of New France

  and French and Indian War

  Royal Society, London

  rum

  Russia Company

  Rutgers

  Ryswick, Treaty of (1697)

  Sagadahoc

  Sagard, Father Gabriel

  Sagard, Pierre

  Sagayenkwaraton

  sailmaking

  Salem (Naumkeag)

  witchcraft trials

  Samoset

  San Antonio

  San Gabriel

  San Miguel de los Adaes

  Sandusky

  Sandys, George

  Sandys, Sir Edwin

  sanitation

  Santa Elena, Point of

  Santa Fe

  Santa Marta

  Santees

  Santo Domingo (formerly Hispaniola)

  Saponis

  Sauks

  Savannah

  Savannahs

  Saybrook Platform

  scalp taking

  Schenectady

  schools see education and training

  Schuyler, Peter

  Schuyler, Philip

  science

  scire facias warrants: definition

  Scotland: Scottish merchants and tobacco industry

  poverty

  Scottish immigrants

  Scots-Irish immigrants

  sculpture: precontact

  Secotan

  selectmen

  Seminoles

  Senecas: join Iroquois Five Nations

  French and allied Indians attack

  rumors of attack in Maryland

  alliance with France

  and French and Indian War

  propose pan-Indian alliance against British

  see also Iroquois; Mingoes

  servants: use of children as

  slaves as domestic

  see also indentured servants

  Sewall, Samuel

  sewers

  sexual mores: Native American

  age of consent

  colonial society

  slave stereotypes

  Pueblo Indians

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley, earl of

  Shakespeare, William

  Shamokin

  Shawnees: conflict with Iroquois

  Pennsylvania invites to resettle there

  alliance with La Salle

  return to Ohio Valley

  overview of migrations

  in Ohio Valley

  and French and Indian War

  see also Savannahs

  sheep

  Shenandoah Valley

  shipbuilding

  shipping

  Shirley, William

  shoemaking

  shopping see consumerism

  Shute, Governor

  Shuterees

  silk

  silver: raw metal in New Spain

  colonial industry

  singing

  Siouans
r />   Sioux

  slavery and slave trade: Native American attitude

  beginning of African

  statistics and effects of trade in Africans

  English involvement

  in early English colonies

  Native Americans sold into slavery

  Dutch trade

  Dutch model

  West Indies

  slave control mechanisms

  Carolinas

  increased reliance on in Virginia

  Pennsylvania

  regulation disputes in Carolinas

  Native Americans raid each other for slaves in southern colonies

  last significant enslavement of Native Americans

  South Carolina intensifies dependence

  denounced by Quakers

  English share

  overview of southern usage

  slaves processing indigo

  slaving voyages

  reasons for comparative lack of slaves in North

  slaves' standard of living

  slaves' family life

  racism's role in justifying

  slaves' marriage and relationship rights

  and Great Awakening

  overview of changing colonial experience

  Georgia

  as legal institution

  slaves' experiences

  humaneness

  map of major slaveholding regions, 348; food and housing

  slaves as domestic servants

  family life

  culture

  naming

  slaves and religion

  resistance to

  questioning of morality

  trade in Native Americans in New Mexico

  New France

  Louisiana

  disruption caused to Native American interrelationships

  tax on Virginian slave imports

  creates political consensus in Virginia

  consequences of French and Indian War for slaves

  Sloughter, Colonel Henry

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Captain John (Virginia)

  Smith, Elizabeth Murray

  Smith, John (Philadelphia)

  Smith, Sir Thomas

  Smith, William

  Smollett, Tobias

  smuggling

  socage: definition

  social life

  social mobility

  social structures: precontact

  western European

  Spanish colonies

  early English colonies

  New France

  Maryland

  West Indies

  changes in Virginia

  rank and class in colonial society

  social hierarchy in England

  rank and class as affecting women

  social aspiration and manners

  class and social activities

  New France

  see also families; marriage; political organization

  social welfare

  Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge

  Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG)

  Society of Friends see Quakers

  Songhay empire

  Soto, Hernando de

  South Carolina: early days

  rice cultivation

  religious dissent

  attacks Spanish Florida

  Tuscarora War

  Yamasee War

  proprietary government overthrown

  indigo cultivation

 

‹ Prev