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Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland are examples of [BLANK-1]. There, governors were appointed by an individual who had purchased or received the rights to rule the territory from the British monarchy. These areas often had more freedoms and liberties than other British North American territories

The primary accusers during the Salem Witch Trials were known as [BLANK-1].

Perhaps the most serious crisis faced by the newly formed United States came in 1783, during [BLANK-1], when General Horatio Gates and others met to suggest that the Continental Army attempt a coup d’état (to illegitimately overthrow the government by a military takeover) so that soldiers would receive their full pensions for their service during the American Revolution. George Washington used his popularity and reputation with the army to dissuade them from this action and end the coup attempt. By preventing the coup, Washington not only saved the new nation from likely failure, he established the important and longstanding U.S. trend of military subordination to civilian authority.

[BLANK-1] was an Enlightenment-inspired concept promoted by John Locke that suggested that governments derive political authority from a social contract with the people rather than divine right.

Those Americans of conservative political leanings, allied with the Tory Party, tended to be [BLANK-1] during the American Revolution.

[BLANK-1] was a seriously destabilizing event in Europe during the mid-fourteenth century. While it led to economic and political disarray at the time, it also created the need for a stronger state system. Some countries, like England, France, Portugal, and Spain, responded to the crisis by strengthening their monarchies and increasing their bureaucracies. This had the positive side effect of positioning these states to dominate the Age of Exploration, as they had the finances and administrative capacities to fund voyages of exploration.

[BLANK-1] were predominantly Catholic. They placed a tremendous emphasis on the conversion of Native Americans and often employed forced conversion methods. They established Catholic missions in their colonial lands as a way of more easily spreading Christianity to the indigenous people. They enticed some Native Americans to adopt Christianity and live at the missions by offering gifts and plentiful food; once the neophytes converted, however, they stopped the gift-giving practice and scaled back their rations.

[BLANK-1] refers to the development of public spaces of sociability and discourse in the leadup to the American Revolution. Coffee Houses and other drinking establishments became sites of public discourse, where colonists shared news, held public debates, passed on rumors, and fomented rebellion

Dutch slavery was less comprehensively exploitative than the systems in other North American empires and slavery was never a large enterprise in Dutch lands (though it existed there). Some Dutch slaves that had proven themselves valuable to the colony, most often in defense against Native American attacks, were given [BLANK-1]. They were allowed to work their own land in return for paying a tax to their enslavers; however, the offspring of these slaves were considered bound laborers.

[BLANK-1] occurred in South Carolina in 1739. It marked the largest armed slave uprising in American history; dozens of whites were killed by slaves and as many as fifty slaves were killed during the conflict. The Spanish Empire may have helped instigate the incident by encouraging slaves to escape to Florida.