Forging Tighter Bonds, 1640–1700

The __________ showed the growing importance of the colonies to England and attempted to control all the trade in and out of English America.

Challenging French dominance of the fur trade, the __________ had more goods for trade and paid better prices for furs.

In the face of a smallpox epidemic that decimated the Iroquois, they took up arms against the Huron in what became known as the __________.

The __________ had a monopoly over the English Atlantic slave trade.

The __________ took away colonists' political power and threatened their property under King James II.

The __________ did not believe that God's will could be discerned through reading the Bible.

The brief period of unity during the __________ broke apart in the years afterward, eventually leading to the return of the Spanish in New Mexico.

Though it failed, __________ provoked the king to reduce taxes on Virginia and remove Governor Berkeley.

The English Civil War was a struggle between those who thought the king had ultimate authority and those who favored __________.

Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative was one of the works that kept __________ alive in New Englanders' memories for decades after the conflict.

__________ economic policy shaped imperial policy, ensuring that the colonies sent their raw materials to and only bought goods from the mother country.

Many colonists cheered the news of the __________ because they had chafed under many of King James's policies.

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