Conflicts of the 1700s Unit 5

Words to know… salutary neglect: a hands-off policy of England toward its American colonies smuggle: bringing goods into the colony illegally slave codes: laws passed to regulate the treatment of slaves

Salutary Neglect in the early 1700s, England mostly stayed out of colonial issues governors were sent to take charge of the colonies but often didn’t enforce rules colonists got used to making and following their own rules

Pirates because of the Navigation Acts, many smuggled goods Britain claimed pirates who attacked Spanish and French ships were legal when they attacked British and colonial ships, it became a problem many found good hiding spots in the Outer Banks Blackbeard

Tuscarora War (1711-1715) bloodiest colonial war in NC Tuscarora Indians had 3 main complaints about the colonists traders often cheated the Indians Indian slave trade included the Tuscarora colonists kept moving into Indian land NC was left in deep debt and many towns were destroyed

Zenger Trial (1735) John Zenger published a newspaper printed an article criticizing New York’s governor for trying to rig an election it was illegal to criticize the government in print his lawyer argued that people had the right to speak the truth the jury agreed and Zenger was released helped lead to the 1st amendment

Stono Rebellion (1739) slave rebellion 20 slaves got access to guns and other weapons killed planter families and headed south, hoping to gain freedom in Spanish Florida caught by the SC militia slaves were killed in the fighting or executed afterwards led to harsher slave codes

French and Indian War

Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763) after the F&I War, the British took over their forts refused to give supplies to the Indians Indians killed many and destroyed most British forts many tribes worked together British retaliated by pretending to offer peace but gave them smallpox infested blankets

Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763) Indians retreated and died from disease British realized it would be hard to protect colonists in the backcountry issued the Proclamation of 1763 which forbid colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mts. colonists were angry believed they earned the right to live in the new territory British said if the colonists wanted to live there, they’d have to pay Britain for defense