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APUSH Review: Rebellions and Conflict in the Colonial Era Video Guide
Big Idea Questions
Guided Notes
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
Why did slavery
increase after
Bacon’s Rebellion?
 What was it?
 Rebellion of poor, landless whites, led by Nathaniel Bacon
(in _______________________________, VA)
 Why did it occur?
 Bacon and other famers lived further __________, conflict
with ____________________
 Upset with Governor Berkeley and eastern farm owners
 What happened?
 Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, almost took
control of Virginia
 Significance?
 Demonstrated ______________________ tensions
 Rebellion against authority
 Movement away from _____________________________
________________________ to slaves
Pueblo (Pope’s) Revolt (1680)
How did the
Spanish change
after the Pueblo
Revolt?
 What was it?
 Native American Rebellion against the Spanish in New
Mexico
 Why did it occur?
 2,000 Spanish and 30,000 Pueblos
 Spanish priests and government suppressed Native
practices that were inconsistent with _________________
_______________________________
 Spanish demanded ________________________________
from Natives
 What happened?
 Pope (Native religious leader) killed hundreds and forced
Spanish to flee
 Spain regains control in 1696
 Significance?
 Spanish sought to religiously ________________________
the Natives
 Pueblos were given more freedoms from the Spanish
Stono Rebellion (1739)
 What was it?
 Rebellion in _____________________________________
involving roughly 100 slaves
 Why did it occur?
 Slaves were resisting their place in society
Areas of Concern
What impact did
the Stono Rebellion
have on future
slaves?
 What happened?
 Slaves captured weapons, killed many whites, sought to
flee to Spanish ______________________________
 They were not successful in their attempt to escape to
Florida
 Most of those involved were killed
 Significance?
 As with other future slave rebellions (Nat Turner, Denmark
Vesey), Southerners clamped down on slaves and made
harsher _____________________________
Leisler’s Rebellion (1689)
 What was it?
 Attempted rebellion led by Jacob Leisler of NY
 Why did it occur?
 Leisler sought to challenge colonial elites
 What happened?
 Raised a militia, claimed himself head of NY government
 Significance?
 Demonstrated tensions between the _________________
_______________________________________________
Salem Witch Trials
How could the
Salem Witch Trials
be seen as an
economic conflict?
 What was it?
 Hysteria that swept over New England in 1680s-1690s
 Why did it occur?
 Young girls behaved in a strange manner, accused servants
of witchcraft
 It quickly spread to many others in the colonies
 What happened?
 Most of accused were middle-aged __________________,
some had _________________________
 Accusers tended to be less _________________________
than accused
 Significance?
 Demonstrated tensions between ____________________
________________
 Exposed tensions over the role of ____________________
Essay Topic: Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in colonial society:
 Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), Pueblo Revolt (1680), Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692), and Stono Rebellion
(1739)
Choose two of the above and briefly compare and show how they demonstrated tensions in colonial society.
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