HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Navigation Acts, Tituba, John Sassamon
11 Mar 2016
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Sugar and slaves: burned at the stake, beheaded, beaten as punishment. By 1720 70% of the populaion was asian. Maryland and new york: coode rebellion (1689, 1691 : maryland a royal colony, 1702 est. Growing tensions: what are the rights of englishmen? a. Civil rights: rights of self-government, piracy and privateering, rise in the 1680s and 1690s, complicity, lewes, de, new jersey, new york captain kidd. Navigaion act of 1696: 88 pages long -all ships ailiated with briish had to ly the briish lag and pay yearly taxes. Privateering: leter of mark seeking permission to ind goods for the crown and had to carry it everywhere. State controlled and state sancion: legal system to control this. This made people want to back out of this system: witchcrat, 1691 1692, salem town and salem village, people, reverened parris, tituba inluenced 20 to 25 people with witch crat, responses, magistrates, to salem, february 1692.
