The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

70 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making that Cotton Mather accepted the existence of witches—at the time everyone did, which ...

The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis 71 the ministry. Nonetheless, as became all too clear at commencement ceremonies in 1722 whe ...

72 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making Social arrangements differed more in degree than in kind from those in other colonie ...

Quakers and other persecuted religious sects, among them Mennonites and Moravians from the Rhine Valley. The first sub- stantial ...

74 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making Most Philadelphians who stuck to their busi- ness, particularly if it happened to be ...

Governor Cosby might have tolerated the Weekly Journal’s front-page lectures on the right of the people to criticize their ruler ...

76 Pressed further, she names two other women as accom- plices. At the mention of their names, Abigail’s face contorts with pain ...

77 Episodes and language taken directly from trial records, though sometimes altered, give the movie a historical feel. For exam ...

78 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making 1619 First Africans are sold in Virginia 1636 Puritans found Boston Latin School and ...

Chapter Review 79 Research and Explore Ann Putnam's Deposition (1692),p. 70 ReadtheDocument Hear the audio file for Chapter 2 at ...

Do you pay too much in taxes? 80 In 2009 the average American paid about one-third of his or her income to the federal governmen ...

America in the British EmpireAmerica in the British Empire 3 CONTENTS ■A 1789 engraving of the Boston Tea Party by W. D. Cooper. ...

82 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire The British Colonial System In the earliest days of any settlement, the need to rely ...

Mercantilism 83 agents in London to present the colonial point of view before board members. The most famous colonial agent was ...

84 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire Early in the eighteenth century the list of enu- merated articles was expanded to inc ...

Rhode Island yards constructed perhaps 250 ships of 100 to 400 tons for transatlantic commerce and twice that many sloops and sc ...

86 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire many colonists away from their ancestors’ preoccupa- tion with the rewards of the nex ...

with material goods, now found release in religious fer- ment. For some the release was more than spiritual; Timothy Cutler, a c ...

88 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire Thirteen once-isolated colonies, expanding to the north and south as well as westward ...

Repercussions of Distant Wars 89 of knowledge were far less specialized than in mod- ern times, self-educated amateurs could als ...