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What was the name given to he conflict between the British and American colonist fighting the French and it’s Native America allies over dominance in western Pennsylvania or the Ohio River Valley (Called the Seven Years War in Europe)?  

What was it called when a literate Angolan named Jemmy led a large group of captive Africans in an armed insurrection against White colonists, the militia suppressed the rebellion after a battle in which both enslaved people and militiamen were killed, and the remaining rebels were executed or sold to enslavers in the West Indies?

 What was it called when a labor contract that young, impoverished, and often illiterate Englishmen and occasionally Englishwomen signed in England, pledging to work for a number of years (usually between five and seven) growing tobacco in the Chesapeake colonies.

The Whigs worked to depose James, and in late 1688 they succeeded, James fled to the court of Louis XIV in France, allowing William III (William of Orange) and his wife Mary II ascended the throne in 1689 which was known as

Who argued that government was a form of contract between the leaders and the people, and that representative government existed to protect “life, liberty and property?”

____________ included all the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island) and in 1688 was enlarged by the addition of New York and New Jersey.  

In the second half of the seventeenth century, especially during the Restoration, England attempted to gain better control of trade with the American colonies, the mercantilist policies by which it tried to achieve this control are known as the 

Which of the following treaties resulted in the British Empire gaining mastery over North America by gaining New France under the treaty; it also acquired French sugar islands in the West Indies, French trading posts in India, and French-held posts on the west coast of Africa?

Although his first efforts against the Inca Empire in the 1520s failed, this conquistador captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1532 and executed him one year later.

In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led still another explosion of evangelical fervor, involving using vivid depictions of the terrors of hell, his best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” perfectly exemplifies this terrifying approach?