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06-10-09 Summer School Ms. Woodford Zhongyu Lin Colonial America (1607-1756): 1.Despite the fact that they were outnumbered 15 to 1 by the British colonial population in America, the French were nevertheless well equipped to hold their own. 2. In 1642 Puritan Massachusetts passed a law requiring that every child be taught to read. And in 1647 it passed the “Old Deluder Satan Act,” so named because its purpose was to defeat Satans attempts to keep people, through an inability to read, from the knowledge of the Scriptures 3. In general, the Spanish took control of the south (present-day Me