Events

During the colonial times, there was a lot of war and famine. There was a lot of death and disease, most cause by wars and rebellions. Like the Glorious Revolution in England, they overthrew King James because diplomacy failed. So citizens formed a revolution to get rid of him. People always took action before words were spoken which can be a good and bad thing, which caused all the deaths. There was a massive slave rebellion called Stono’s Uprising, it was a well-organized rebellion led by native Africans. These Africans took a stand for themselves to get what they want. The Virginians tried that too, they organized a “protest” called the “starving time”, where people were forced into starvation to remove the English from Virginia. Around 500 people died in this form of rebellion. Another Virginia rebellion would be Bacon’s Rebellion, led by Nathaniel Bacon. The Virginians took action because they didn’t like the governor’s friendly policies toward murderous Natives. The Virginians took matters into there are hands.

            A similar revolt like Bacon’s Rebellion would be the Pequot War. The difference is tribe killed colonist and this led to a series of unfortunate events for them, which caused the near extermination of the Pequot tribe.  The Native Americans were involved in plenty of wars during the  16^th and 17^th century. Like there first war was in King Philip’s War and is sometimes known as the first Indian war. King Philip’s war was also caused because diplomacy failed. The second Indian war was King William’s war, which was between England, France and American Indian allies. This war was caused by significant tension between war France and some English colonies. I guess war is sometimes necessary but not wanted.    

But death wasn’t only caused by war. There was also the Salem Witch Trials were men and women (but mostly women) were convicted of being witches and they were either burned alive or hanged. Anybody could’ve been accused of witchcraft and executed the next day. The Great Awakening may have helped the people part of the Grant Migration to stop all the unnecessary deaths in the New World.

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