- Introduction
- Social turmoil of late-seventeenth century North America
- Illustration: King Philip's War
- Indian attacks on southern New England colonial settlements
- Defeat of Indian rebellion
- Devastation of southern New England Indians
- Expansion of England's empire
- Mercantilism
- Principles
- Adoption by England
- Place of North America in
- New York
- Origins
- Growth and significance
- Military
- Commercial
- Population
- Status of inhabitants
- Religious groups
- Ethnic groups
- Women
- Blacks
- Landed elite
- Iroquois Confederacy
- Charter of Liberties and Privileges
- Carolina
- Origins
- Relations with Indians
- Lures for settlers
- Introduction of plantation slavery
- Pennsylvania
- Origins
- William Penn
- Quaker principles
- Relations with Indians
- Lures for settlers
- Growth
- Mercantilism
- Origins of American slavery
- Reasons for rise of black slavery in British colonies
- Growing demand for plantation labor
- Practical advantages over other alternatives
- English cultural perceptions
- Of "alien peoples" in general
- Of Africans in particular
- Slavery in world history
- Slavery in the West Indies
- Rapid rise during seventeenth century
- Centrality of sugar production
- Rise of Chesapeake slavery
- Early decades
- Predominance of servants from England
- Ambiguities of lines between black and white, slavery and freedom
- In custom
- In law
- Mid-seventeenth century
- Gradual divergence in status of blacks and whites
- Growing practice of slavery
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Background
- Governor William Berkeley's favoritism toward wealthy planters
- Diminishing prospects, rising hardships of small farmers
- Berkeley's restraints on white settlement
- Narrative
- Frontier attacks on Indians
- Mobilization of diverse rebels by Nathaniel Bacon
- Grievances and objectives
- Burning of Jamestown
- Attacks on governor's supporters
- Suppression of rebellion
- Long-term consequences
- Expanded freedoms and opportunities for white Virginians
- Accelerated shift from white indentured servitude to black slavery
- Background
- Early eighteenth century
- Legal codification of slavery, white supremacy
- Consolidation of slavery as basis of Virginia economy
- Slave resistance
- Early decades
- Reasons for rise of black slavery in British colonies
- Colonies in crisis
- The Glorious Revolution and repercussions for colonial America
- The Glorious Revolution in England
- Establishment of Parliamentary supremacy
- Entrenchment of Protestant succession to throne
- Affirmation of English rights and liberties
- Reassertion of colonial autonomy; new charters
- Abolition of Dominion of New England; restoration of New England colonial governments
- Maryland
- New York
- Massachusetts
- The Glorious Revolution in England
- Witchcraft in New England
- Seventeenth-century belief in supernatural
- Generally around Europe and America
- Among Puritans
- Customary conceptions and treatment of "witches"
- Salem witch trials
- Mounting hysteria
- Accusations, trials, and punishment
- Ebbing of hysteria
- Discrediting of witch-hunting; growing commitment to scientific explanation
- Seventeenth-century belief in supernatural
- The Glorious Revolution and repercussions for colonial America
- Trends in eighteenth-century colonial America
- Population growth
- Remarkable pace
- Causes
- Increasing diversity of population
- Higher rate of non-English to English arrivals
- Efforts by London to stem outflow of skilled English
- Efforts by London to encourage settlement by others
- Africans
- English convicts
- Scots and Scots-Irish
- Germans
- Higher rate of non-English to English arrivals
- Lures to settlement
- Religious diversity
- Availability of land
- Demand for skills
- Other freedoms and opportunities
- Indians and the colonies
- Place in imperial system as traders, consumers, military allies
- Growing conflict with backcountry settlers
- Patterns of agriculture
- New England
- Backcountry
- Middle Colonies
- Place of colonies in consumer revolution
- As producer of goods
- As consumer of goods
- Colonial cities
- Growth
- Functions
- Financial
- Commercial
- Cultural
- Merchants
- Artisans
- Population growth
- Social classes in the colonies
- Elites
- Rising dominance
- Regional variants
- Mercantile elite of New England and Middle Colonies
- Planter elite of Chesapeake and Lower South
- Means of social and political hegemony
- "Anglicization"
- Aristocratic lifestyle
- Hierarchical worldview
- The poor
- Spread of poverty
- Slaves
- Landless tenants and wage earners
- Attitudes and policies toward the poor
- Image as responsible for own poverty
- Workhouses
- Apprenticeship
- "Warning out" of and expulsion from communities
- Spread of poverty
- Middling ranks
- Predominance of
- Basis in land ownership
- Gender divisions of labor
- Elites
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