Chapter 3: Crisis and Change
1675-1720

     I. Rebellions and War
          A. Decline of Puritan Church
          B. King Philip's War (Metacom's War)
          C. Bacon's Rebellion

     II. Pennsylvania, the "Holy Experiment"
          A. Quakers
          B. Diversity
          C. Delaware

     III. The Glorious Revolution
          A. Dominion of New England
          B. King James deposed; power of the King permanently limited

     Read these sections on your own; no formal lecture
          A. Witchcraft in New England
          B. Wars and Rivalry in North America
          C. The Entrenchment of Slavery in British America

     IV. Economic Development in the British Colonies
          A. Northern colonies
          B. Middle colonies
          C. Southern (plantation) colonies

Key Terms

     Halfway Covenant
     praying towns
     Nathaniel Bacon
     indentured servants
     William Penn
     Salem
     Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
     hierarchies
     middle passage
     black codes

Study Questions

1. Explain how and why the New England theocracy was weakened.  Consider your answer in such items as the
Half-Way Covenant and dissenters.

2. Explain how England's Glorious Revolution and its aftermath affected the colonies.

3. Describe how the Salem witch craze began and explain how it fit traditional patterns of accusation.  How and why
did these patterns change and what brought an end to the mania?

4. Describe and discuss the economic development of the early English colonies in America.  Compare and contrast
the situations of the New England, Middle and Chesapeake regions.