... was called the "City of Brotherly Love." IX. Delaware - Delaware was owned by the Penn Family, they purchased it from two Quakers who had originally purchased it from Berkeley. X. Maryland - Named after the Queen of England. - Maryland was begun as a refuge for Catholics. George Calvert obtained a charter for the colony, but he died, and his oldest son, Cecil Calvert, raised money ... . The tribe started out friendly toward the settlers, but turned violent when their land was threatened. - In 1675 King Philip's War occurred. King Philip was the nickname for a Wompanoag Chief named Metaco...

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... a crystal ball to try to find the answer to questions such as "what trade their sweet harts should be of ". This conjuring took place in the Parris household where a woman named Tituba, an Indian slave, headed the rituals. Soon after they had begun to practice these rituals, girls who had been involved, including the Master Parris' daughter and niece became sick ... hunting for the witches who were to blame for the girls' sickness began to get more serious. By the end of February 1692, not one, but three witches had been named. These women were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, all...

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... of the most noteworthy incidents was the destruction of the tea. As a political protest opposing to the Townshend Act, which placed new duties on various imports, members of a Patriotic organization named "Sons of Liberty" disguised as American Indians and destroyed a total of 42,009.9 kilograms of tea on December 16, 1773.viii Patriots clearly demonstrated their dissatisfaction toward the ... ...

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... fear in civilians" heads. Because of this fear of pirates if a pirate was captured by the government they received harsh punishments, such as death. An example of this was a pirate named Joseph Andrews, from the eighteenth century, who was trial and executed in Massachusetts and "hanged pursuant to his sentence. After he was dead, his body was cut down, and hanged ... ...

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