4.6: Challenges to State Power

Local resistance

• With the coming of expansion, it also increased efforts to centralize their power in order to maintain economic and political control

• 1. Fronde

  • In France

    • Absolutiosm: The monarchs consolidate near all power beneath themselves

    • and so several new edicts were passed that increased taxation among French subjects, and so the France nobility, whose power has been under threat from the growing power of the monarchy led peasants in spontaneous rebellion, known as the Fronde.

• 2. Queen Ana Nzinga’s Resistance

  • In Africa

    • Fought back the portuguese armies.

• 3. Pueblo Revolt

  • in North America

    • Because of the relentless efforts of European states to expand their empires and consolidate power under themselves, the various groups that suffered the effects of that expansion resisted, sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully.

Resistance from Enslaved

• Maroon societies

  • small population of free blacks

    • The presence of Maroon communities served as an endless enticement for their workers to abandon the fields and flee.

• British colonies

  • North America

  • Stono Revellion of 1739