Tensions
- Created by: reneesimba
- Created on: 06-06-18 14:26
View mindmap
- Social Tension 1713-41
- Key Features
- Tensions rose between different groups as they competed for: land, power and money
- Strained relations between free backs, slaves and colonists
- Congregationalists tried to prevent non congregationalists from settling.
- Inequalities between classes
- Urban merchants and rural landowners competed over laws and taxes 1730 Virginia Inspection Act favoured large landowners
- Old settlers resented new ones
- Resentments towards scots-irish and racism towards germans due to different culture and language
- Native Americans felt unhappy with expansion of their territory
- Causes
- Rapid increase inpopulation
- Expansion into new territory not purchased by British
- Migrants from all around into new parts of America from Europe
- Consequence of
- Fear of slave rebellions
- Passion of anti immigration laws, rioting and violence
- Importance
- White colonists lived in constant fear of rebellion
- Tensions established between the colonists and Natives
- Key Features
Similar History resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made