HIST 190 Chapter 3: Chapter 3- Creating Anglo-America
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In the last quarter of the 17th century, a series of crises rocked the european colonies of north. Social and political tensions boiled over in sometimes ruthless conflicts between rich and poor, free and slave, settler and indian, and members of different religious groups. Struggles within and between european empires echoed in colonies. Aggrieved groups seized upon the language of freedom to advance their goals. Although each conflict had its own local causes, taken together they added up to a general crisis of colonial society in the area that would become the united states. New englanders described the wampanoag leader metacom as the uprising"s mastermind, although in fact most tribes fought under their own leaders. Global competition and the expansion of england"s empire. By the middle of the seventeenth century, it was apparent that the colonies could be an important source of wealth for the mother country.
