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Glossary Term – Event

New England entered slave trade

New England merchants entered the slave trade in the 1640s.

Glossary Term – Organization

Dominion of New England

The Dominion of New England was a single province created by the 1686 merger of the English colonies of New England—Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Dominion was created to give the monarchy greater power over colonial administration, but it was disbanded with the Glorious Revolution and Leisler’s Rebellion in 1689.

Glossary Term – Person

Metacomet

Metacomet (1639–1676) was the Wampanoag chief who led King Philip’s War against the New England colonists in 1675–1676 to prevent Puritan expansion into native lands.

Glossary Term – Place

Connecticut

Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii [New Netherland - New York], 1730. (Gilder Lehrm

Primary Source

Map of the New World, with European settlements and American Indian tribes, 1730

This map, “Recens edita totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali,”...

Teaching Resource

Conflict and Captivity in the Colonies

Background

The early seventeenth century was punctuated by a series of small wars between Native Americans and colonists. Many colonists were captured and taken prisoner, but two women, whose ordeals were published as books, stand out. Mary Rowlandson wrote an account of her 1675 capture and escape, The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, in which she described her captivity and treatment by the Native Americans during King Phillip’s War. Hannah Dustin was captured in 1675, during King...

Teaching Resource

Religion and Literacy in Colonial New England

Historical Background

Puritans believed that reading the Bible was important to achieving salvation and, therefore, teaching children to read was a priority in their colonial centers. The New England Primer, first published in Boston in 1690 and used by students through the nineteenth century, was seen as a means to advance literacy. With more than five million copies of the Primer sold, generations of children first learned their ABCs through this publication. The document image is an excerpt from the Primer...

Teaching Resource

Toward Revolution: Guided Readings

Reading 1

For fire and water are not more heterogeneous than the different colonies in North America. Nothing can exceed the jealousy and emulation which they possess in regard to each other. . . . In short . . . were they left to themselves there would soon be a civil war from one end of the continent to the other, while the Indians and Negroes would . . . impatiently watch the opportunity of exterminating them all together.

—Rev. Andrew Burnaby, 1760

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