American Colonies: Prelude to Revolutions discusses several key events and developments in the American colonies leading up to revolutions. Rumors of the Glorious Revolution in England reached the colonies in 1689, alarming colonial appointees of King James. In Boston, rebel leaders filled the streets with militia in response. Wealth among the colonies began to grow as trade increased across the Atlantic, particularly in tobacco and sugar crops. Some colonists also began challenging the institutions of slavery and treatment of Native Americans.

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2. Rumors of the Glorious Revolution reached the American colonies in the spring of 1689, also alarming the colonial appointees of King James. On April 18th 1689 rebel leaders suddenly filled the streets of Boston with Militia-men. There angst had eventually subsided through calm reasoning and they all came to terms and pledged to England. REVOLUTIONS

3. THE ATLANTIC The trade line across the Atlantic was the single-most greatest information deliverer and receiver any one could ask for. American colonist marketed vastly towards their tobacco and sugar crops. Wealth among the colonies began to grow.

4. Worried that their slaves considered Christianity a step toward freedom, masters feared that baptism would encourage resentment and resistance. Only the Quakers tried to fulfill the radical racial implications of the revivals by challenging the twin injustices most fundamental to colonial society: Indian war and African slavery AWAKENINGS

5. Until about AD 800, the Great Plains belonged to many small and dispersed bands of hunter/ gatherers. In the short run horses on the Great Plains improved life for its inhabitants substantially. The hunting became easier, kills increased, word spread, more people came, then it became a competitive life during which struggle for territories began, and killing started. THE GREAT PLAINS

6. IMPERIAL WARS AND CRISIS The imperialists that were colonizing were doing so at a time when whoever could control the native population of Indians, could control the whole new world. The theory was tested during the French and Indian war, in which the French and Indians attempted to defeat the American colonialists of Britain. The colonialists won the war

7. THE PACIFIC During the 1760’s British and French governments became serious about probing the Pacific Ocean. On his voyage from 1776-1779, Captain James Cook stumbled upon the Hawaiian Islands.