I thought that I could almost point and shew them the straight way to heaven by Jesus Christ

Therefore we need not be uneasy that the English Settle upon our Lands as by that means they can more easily Supply our wants.

they would be glad to see any Man, that dare exert a British Act of Parliament here.

wives asserted more control over their own bodies.

That couples would turn to newspapers as a source of expression illustrates the importance of what historians call print culture

as being a woman not fit for our society

Bacon’s Declaration challenged the economic and political privileges of the governor’s circle of favorites

The English Revolution of the 1640s forced settlers in America to reconsider their place within the empire

In 1688, members of the Society of Friends in Germantown, outside of Philadelphia, signed a petition protesting the institution of slavery among fellow Quakers.

n English courts as much as the flintlock rifles and ammunition traders offered them for slaves and animal skins.

Opechcanough was captured and shot and the survivors of Powhatan's confederacy, now reduced to just 2,000, agreed to submit to English rule.

the English began to acquire new lands along the James River, encroaching on Indian hunting grounds.

Winthrop was implicitly criticizing disruptive social and economic changes that were rapidly transforming English society. As a result of the enclosure of traditional common lands, which were increasingly used to raise sheep, many rural laborers were thrown off the land, producing a vast floating population.

The colonists were unable to find any profitable commodities and they still depended upon the Indians and sporadic shipments from England for food.

The skyrocketing cost of land coincided with plummeting farming income. Rents and prices rose but wages stagnated

Many cited spiritual concerns and argued that colonization would glorify God, England, and Protestantism by Christianizing the New World’s pagan peoples.

Relations with the Indians deteriorated and the colonists fought a kind of slow-burning guerrilla war with the Powhatan.

tobacco as a “noxious weed, … loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs,

Because she was with child, her belly was very and her balance was very awkward and so as she leaned over and peered to see deep in the hole, she lost her balance. Pretty soon, she began to fall. As she fell, she tried to scramble quickly and grab the roots to hold on. That didn’t work; she only got a handful of dirt.

When Orunmila heard the news he climbed down the golden chain to the earth, and cast many spells which caused the flood waters to retreat and the dry African land reappear.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, 1 Cor. 11.7 after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth

Portuguese established forts along the Atlantic coast of Africa during the fifteenth century, inaugurating centuries of European colonization there.

They established limited colonies in Iceland and Greenland and, around the year 1000, Leif Erikson reached New Foundland in present-day Canada. But the Norse colony failed.

The Mississippians developed the largest and most advanced native civilization north of modern-day Mexico. Roughly one-thousand years ago, the largest Mississippian settlement, Cahokia, located just east of modern-day St. Louis, peaked at a population of between 10,000-30,000.