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Colonial America

Page 97

by Richard Middleton, Anne Lombard


  use of slaves

  paper money

  standard of living

  social elites

  women's rights

  businesswomen

  Anglican Church established

  institutional aspects of slavery

  experience of being a slave in

  free African Americans in

  slave runaways

  Stono Rebellion (1739)

  alliances with Native Americans

  eighteenth-century immigration

  Georgia founded to protect its borders

  politics after 1690

  local government

  voting rights

  issue of money

  suspending clauses

  nationality of governors

  attack on St. Augustine

  and French and Indian War

  conflict with Cherokees

  see also Carolinas; Charleston

  South Carolina Gazette

  South Sea Bubble

  South Sea Company

  Southel, Seth

  Southwell, Sir Robert

  Spain: exploration and colonization

  Reconquista

  takeover of Portugal

  Dutch Protestants' rebellion

  effect of American silver

  English struggles with

  peace treaty with England (1604)

  English privateers' attacks on

  seventeenth-century decline

  peace treaty with England (1667)

  conflict in Florida

  and War of the Spanish Succession

  missions to Native Americans

  overview of North American colonies

  borderlands

  interactions with Native Americans in Spanish colonies

  statistics on New World emigrants

  map of settlements in Gulf of Mexico

  Texas

  alliances with Native Americans

  War of Jenkins' Ear

  and French and Indian War

  takes over Louisiana

  abandons Florida

  North American territories claimed by

  see also Florida

  Spanish Armada (1588)

  Spanish Succession, War of the (1701–14)

  Spectator

  Spelman, Henry

  Spencer, Mr. Secretary

  Spencer, Nicholas

  SPG see Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

  spinning

  Spotswood, Governor

  Springfield, Massachusetts

  Squanto

  St. Augustine, Florida: foundation

  South Carolina attacks

  Oglethorpe attacks

  St. Clements

  St. Domingue

  St. Francis

  St. Francois

  St. George's

  St. Joseph

  St. Kitts (formerly St. Christopher)

  St. Lawrence River: Cartier's expedition

  Champlain explores

  Native Americans in the region

  French help Native Americans against Iroquois

  French towns on

  French attempts to form alliances with Native Americans

  British expedition up

  as heart of New France

  St. Louis

  St. Marks

  St. Mary's

  Stagg, Charles

  Stagg, Mary

  standard of living

  Staten Island

  Stearns, Shubal

  Stephens, Adam

  Stoddard, Solomon

  Stone, Captain

  Stone, William

  Stono Rebellion (1739)

  Stoughton, William

  stoves

  Strachey, William

  street lighting

  street paving

  Stuart town

  Stuyvesant, Peter

  Sudbury

  sugar: use of slaves to produce

  Spanish cultivation

  Brazil

  West Indies

  development of British market

  map of areas growing and refining

  in and products made from

  protectionism

  Sugarees

  sumptuary laws

  Susquehanna Valley

  Susquehannocks: migrations to escape Iroquois

  conflict with Iroquois

  trade with Swedes

  in Maryland

  Chesapeake attacks

  subsequently migrate to Pennsylvania

  paranoid rumors about in Maryland

  later resettlements

  swaddling

  Swansea, Massachusetts

  Sweden

  Swiss immigrants

  Sydney, Algernon

  Tacitus

  Tadoussac

  Taensas

  Tahaiadoris

  Talbot, George

  tar

  taste: anglicization

  taverns

  tax anticipation notes

  taxes and customs duties: early English colonies

  Watertown protests (1632)

  Dutch taxes on Long Island

  Maryland

  West Indies

  and English Civil War

  effects of Navigation Acts

  New York

  Carolinas

  Virginian inequalities

  Lawne Creek protest

  Pennsylvania

  Crown tries to take back all tax-raising powers in Dominion of New England

  New England protests against arbitrary taxes

  Massachusetts' new charter returns some powers to colony

  Crown interference in New York

  proprietary and Crown taxes in Maryland cause problems

  more extensive taxes needed to fund William III's wars

  William and Mary's colonial tax policy gives more powers to England

  effect on profits

  eighteenth-century customs machinery

  in eighteenth century

  lack in New France

  disputes between assemblies and Crown over

  arguments over type in New York

  British government decides to raise colonial

  tea

  Teach, William

  technology

  Teedyuscung, Chief

  Tehuacan Valley

  Tennent, Gilbert

  Tennent, William

  Tenochtitlan

  Test Acts (1673 and 1678)

  Texas

  textiles: precontact

  colonial industry

  domestic production

  Ulster industry

  Thanksgiving

  theater

  Theyanoguin, Chief (Hendrick)

  Thresher, Francis

  Ticonderoga

  timber see lumber

  Timothy, Elizabeth

  Timucuas

  Tituba

  tobacco: Hispaniola

  first shipment to England

  Virginia

  Maryland

  West Indies

  increasing reliance on slaves to grow

  depressed prices in Maryland

  spread of use in England

  economic importance

  plantation system of culture

  types

  indebtedness of planters

  use as money

  cultivation tasks

  Louisiana

  Toleration Act (1689)

  Tomochichi

  tools: precontact

  Native American exposure to European metal tools

  Tordesillas, Treaty of (1494)

  towns see urban development and towns

  trade: Native American attitude

  earliest trade between Native Americans and Europeans

  western Europe

  Islamic traders

  African

  French trade with Native Americans

  Portuguese trade in the Americas

  English

  changing nature of American trade
in seventeenth century

  Virginia

  Massachusetts with Native Americans

  New England

  Dutch trade with Native Americans

  mercantilist system of regulation

  English rivalry with Dutch

  New York

  Carolinas

  growing commercialism in Massachusetts

  navigation acts enforced

  Crown makes changes to system in Dominion of New England

  Crown interference in New York

  Board of Trade established

  overview of British trade with colonies and beyond

  overview of colonial export products and markets

  mercantilist system in eighteenth century

  colonial imports

  protectionism

  consumer revolution

  women's rights to engage in

  New Mexico

  Spanish deficiencies in

  French attitude compared with Algonquian

  Louisiana with Native Americans

  Texas

  Ohio Valley

  Native Americans become caught up in consumer revolution

  effects of trade with Europeans on Native American lifestyle

  Ireland

  British and French rivalries in Canada

  British and Spanish rivalries

  British trade with mainland colonies surpasses that with West Indies

  Spanish extend trade with Native Americans in West

  limitations placed on Native American trade in Canada

  see also fur trade; slavery and slave trade; sugar; taxes and customs duties; tobacco

  Transportation of Convicts Act (1718)

  Trenchard, John

  Trois-Rivières

  Tunicas

  Tuscarora War (1711–12)

  Tuscaroras

  Unamis

  Uncas, Chief

  Upper Creeks

  urban development and towns: precontact

  stockaded villages

  early English colonies

  in New England

  town promoters in Massachusetts

  Philadelphia provides first example of urban planning

  northern colonies

  eighteenth-century growth and improvements

  town government

  increase in size and number of towns leads to local government disputes

  Utrecht, Treaty of (1713)

  Van Cortlandt, Stephanus

  Van Rensselaer, Kiliaen

  Vane, Sir Henry

  Vargas, Diego de

  Venango

  Verhulst, Willem

  Vernon, Admiral

  Verrazano, Giovanni de

  Vikings

  villages, stockaded

  Ville-Marie see Montréal

  virgin soil epidemics

  Virginia: foundation and early days

  tobacco industry

  reaction to and effect of Restoration

  Bacon's Rebellion and aftermath

  map of

  Glorious Revolution

  administration of tax laws

  conference with Iroquois

  offers help to Carolinas in Yamasee War

  population

  labor force figures

  use of slaves

  subsistence farmers

  iron industry

  rural nature

  planters' indebtedness to British factors

  paper money

  poverty

  child servants

  families

  equality

  laws on

  interracial marriage

  women's lives

  religion in eighteenth century

  education

  Beverley's history

  institutional aspects of slavery

  experience of being a slave in

  free African Americans in

  slave conspiracies

  changes to Native American life brought by interactions with settlers

  eighteenth-century immigration

  urban development

  politics after 1690

  Twopenny Act

  voting rights

  issue of money

  nationality of governors

  political consensus

  attempts to expand into Ohio Valley

  and French and Indian War

  militia

  see also Chesapeake

  Virginia Charter of Liberties

  Virginia Company of London

  voting rights

  Waccamaws

  Wahunsonacock see Powhatan

  Walker, Admiral

  Walker, Dr Thomas

  Walking Treaty Purchase (1737)

  Walpole, Massachusetts

  Walpole, Sir Robert

  Wamesit

  Wampanoags

  wampum

  Wanchese

  Wappingers

  warfare: purpose in Eastern Woodlands societies

  mourning wars

  effect of virgin soil epidemics on

  western European attitude

  changed nature of postcontact Native American

  Native Americans start to adopt European style

  settlers' lack of skills

  Warner, Sir Thomas

  Warren, Mary

  Warren, Sir Peter

  Warwick, earl of

  Washington, Colonel John

  Washington, George

  water, drinking

  Watertown, Massachusetts

  Abraham Browne, Jr. House

  wealth see standard of living

  weapons: precontact

  gun supply to Mohawks depletes fur supply

  Native Americans acquire guns from French

  weaving

  Webb, General

  Wells, Maine

  Wentworth, Governor

  Wesley, John

  Wessagusset

  the West: exploration

  French and Spanish as bar to British expansion

  British and French rivalries

  British–Native American relations

  British aspirations to take over completely

  West, Benjamin

  painting by

  West Africa

  West Indies: colonization

  trade with New England

  map of, 130; slavery

  colonization of Carolinas from

  indigo cultivation

  market for American colonies

  smuggling

  slave conspiracies

  trade with Britain

  Spanish and French losses in French and Indian War

  western Europe: fifteenth-century society and culture

  Westminster, Treaty of (1674)

  Weston, Thomas

  Westos

  Wethersfield, Connecticut

  Weymouth

  Weymouth, Sir George

  whaling

  Whalley, Edward

  wheat

  Wheelwright, Reverend John

  Whigs: beliefs

  White, John: drawings by

  on Native Americans

  botanical work

  plans for City of Raleigh

  Roanoke relief expedition

  White Oaks

  Whitefield, George

  Whitney, Eli

  Willard, Parson Samuel

  William III, king of Great Britain and Ireland: ascends throne

  colonial reaction

  colonial policy

  and Pennsylvania

  William of Orange

  Williams, Abigail

  Williams, Eunice

  Williams, Reverend John

  Williams, Roger

  Williamsburg

  Wingfield, Edward

  Wingina, Chief

  Winnebagos

  Winslow, John

  Winslow, Josiah

  Winthrop, Fitz-John

  Winthrop, John

  voyage to America

  landholdings

 
; as governor

  and Hutchinson

  on Cotton's law code

  on equality

  death

  Winthrop, John, IV

  Winthrop, John, Jr.

  Winthrop, Wait

  Wisconsin River

  Wise, John

  witchcraft trials

  Wolfe, General James

  women: Native American jobs and roles

  Native American relationship with men

  Native American political role

  western European jobs and roles

  western European relationship with men

  Puritan role and status

  encouraged to emigrate to New France

  in Maryland

  Englishwomen's property rights compared with Dutch women's

  rights in New York

  shortage in Virginia

  Salem witchcraft trials as reflections of gender repression and gendered power

  Quaker treatment

  and childrearing

  education

  and patriarchal authority

  in colonial society

  gender ideology

  domestic skills

  life expectancy

  notable businesswomen

  in eighteenth century

  and spending

  threat of consumerism to gender ideology

  literacy

  slave women experiences

  treatment in New France

  consumer revolution leads to lowering in status of Native American women

  and voting rights

  consequences of French and Indian War

  see also families

  Woodward, Dr Henry

  woolen industry

  Woolman, John

  Worcester

  writing: Mayan system

  Wyandots

  Wyatt, Sir Francis

  Yacomicos

  Yale

  Yamacraws

  Yamasee War (1715)

  Yamasees: background

  attack Florida

  migrate to Florida after Yamasee War

  Yeamans, Sir John

  Yeardley, George

  York, Maine

  Zacatecas

  Zenger, John Peter

  Zheng He

 

 

 


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