What was the term for the widespread desire for equalizing wealth that was a driving force behind many actions of poor whites in the English colonies?
Explanation
This question defines the key term 'Levelling,' which is central to understanding the class-based motivations for rebellion in the colonial era.
Other questions
In what year did Bacon's Rebellion, a significant uprising of white frontiersmen joined by slaves and servants, take place in the Virginia colony?
How many soldiers did England decide to send across the Atlantic to maintain order in Virginia following Bacon's Rebellion?
According to Governor Berkeley's weary assessment in 1676, what proportion of the people in the colony were 'Poore Endebted Discontented and Armed'?
What underlying motivation did Richard Lee, a member of the Governor's Council, attribute to the 'zealous inclination of the multitude' to support Bacon's Rebellion?
According to Abbot Smith's study 'Colonists in Bondage', what was the most powerful force causing the movement of indentured servants to the American colonies?
What action did Thomas Grantham take to disarm the final rebel garrison of eighty Negroes and twenty English who insisted on keeping their arms?
By the year 1700 in Virginia, how many wealthy families with fortunes equivalent to 50,000 pounds controlled the colony's economy?
In the Fundamental Constitutions for the Carolinas, written by John Locke, what percentage of the colony's land would be owned by eight barons?
What was the core philosophy of the rulers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as declared by Governor John Winthrop in 1630?
According to a study of Boston tax lists, what happened to the share of wealth owned by the top 1 percent of property owners between 1687 and 1770?
What was the consequence for voting rights as the percentage of poor adult males in Boston doubled from 14 to 29 percent between 1687 and 1770?
The farmers' revolt of Jacob Leisler in 1689 in New York was a response to grievances of the poor against what system?
What was the purpose of the two-story brick structure built in New York City in the 1730s?
In 1713, a severe food shortage in Boston led to a riot on the Boston Common where two hundred people attacked the ships and warehouses of which wealthy merchant?
The Regulator movement in North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 was a movement of which group?
In the decisive battle in May of 1771 that crushed the Regulator movement, what did the governor's disciplined army use that the Regulators lacked?
In Boston, what was the name of the group of rioters, described as 'Foreign Seamen, Servants, Negroes, and Other Persons of Mean and Vile Condition,' protesting against impressment for naval service?
What was the primary method the colonial elite found to create a buffer against Indian troubles and divert class conflict?
What did the Virginia Assembly do after Bacon's Rebellion to solidify the division between poor whites and blacks?
According to the chapter, what 'wonderfully useful device' did the ruling group find in the 1760s and 1770s to unite whites to fight against England?
What was the ultimate fate of the twenty-three rebel leaders of Bacon's Rebellion after it was suppressed?
In the 1660s, a master in Virginia was convicted of raping two women servants. What was the court's final action regarding the rape charge, despite overwhelming evidence?
What was the estimated population of the colonies in 1700 and 1760 respectively, showing rapid growth?
According to Abbot Smith's study, what was the likely outcome for the vast majority (80 percent) of indentured servants after their servitude?
The voyage to America for indentured servants, as described by Gottlieb Mittelberger, was marked by what conditions?
What was the population of black slaves in the colonies as a percentage of the total population in 1690 and 1770?
In the 1730s, what did protesters in Boston do in response to high prices established by merchants?
What was the result of the battle in May 1771 between the North Carolina Regulators and the governor's army?
In the 1740s and 1750s, why did poor farmers in New Jersey riot?
What did the Virginia Assembly require masters to provide to white servants (but not blacks) whose indenture time was up, following Bacon's Rebellion?
More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period arrived in what status?
In a 1661 servant rebellion plot in York County, Virginia, what did Isaac Friend declare their cry would be as they marched?
What was the purpose of the Virginia legislature's laws passed after the participation of servants in Bacon's Rebellion?
By 1770, the percentage of adult males in Boston who owned no property had doubled to what amount?
The colonial elite, by the 1760s, had how many years of experience in ruling?
What was the term used to describe the first lockout in American labor history at the Gloucester shipyards in the 1640s?
What was the primary reason for the riots in the Hudson Valley by tenant farmers in the 1750s and 1760s?
A city council resolution in New York in the 1730s described the poor as living 'Idly and unimployed' and becoming instructed in what practice?
What was the fate of Jacob Leisler after his farmers' revolt was suppressed?
According to the chapter, what was the 'most feared' combination for the wealthy white planters?
In a 1705 Virginia law, what were newly freed white women servants to receive?
Who did the New Yorker Cadwallader Colden speak for in 1747 when he attacked the wealthy as tax dodgers?
What was the significance of the fact that white servants and black slaves ran away together in the early colonial period?
How many rebel leaders were hanged after Bacon's Rebellion?
According to a study of Chester County, Pennsylvania, in the 1700s, what trend was observed regarding the distribution of wealth?
What was the significance of the fact that colonial governments passed laws to forbid servants from organizing rebellions?
In a pamphlet from 1737, how are poor street urchins in New York described?
What was the conclusion of Edmund Morgan regarding the class nature of the American Revolution?
What percentage of the population did black slaves constitute in the colonies by 1770?