Don't Know Much About History- Say You Want A Revolution- Notes

King Philips War

Summer 1767

Metacom/King Philip

Vicious war/Mahegans Indians

Nat Bacon’s rebellion

1676

Governor Berkeley

-Limits colonist expansion

Bacon raises troops and goes and kills Indians

Berkeley declares bacon an ____

Bacon burns down Berkeley’s mansion

British troops come

Salem Witch Trials

Important: Shows the dangers of church/State connection

The Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards-

Sinners in the hand of an angry god

Leads to the founding of many Universities

-Princeton, Brown,

Divisions of church/state

French & Indian War

French/English world domination & North America

William Pitt

-Conquests of North America

Able to borrow/reuse money to win the war

Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams

James Otis

-“No taxation without representation”

-an excuse for war/rebellion

Tea Act

Intolerable Acts

            -Close down Boston harbor

            -Revoked Massachusetts’s charter

            -Soldiers

            -Administration of justice Act

            -Quebec Act

Shot Heard Around the World

            -Lexington and Concord, April 1775