Ever fearful of an uprising among enslaved New Yorkers, the…

Ever fearful of an uprising among enslaved New Yorkers, the city’s White residents spread rumors that the fires were part of a massive revolt in which enslaved people would murder White people, burn the city, and take over the colony. Rumors that Roman Catholics had joined the suspected conspiracy and planned to murder Protestant inhabitants of the city only added to the general hysteria causing government executed seventeen New Yorkers was known as?  

What stimulated Parliament’s independence from the monarchy…

What stimulated Parliament’s independence from the monarchy and protected certain of Parliament’s rights, such as the right to freedom of speech, the right to regular elections, the right to petition the king, trial by jury and habeas corpus (the requirement that authorities bring an imprisoned person before a court to demonstrate the cause of the imprisonment)?

During the eighteenth century, the British Atlantic experien…

During the eighteenth century, the British Atlantic experienced an outburst of Protestant revivalism where evangelists came from the ranks of several Protestant denominations: Congregationalists, Anglicans (members of the Church of England), and Presbyterians was known as