Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in British Settlement in North America.
A purported 1741 plot by enslaved people and poor whites to burn down New York City, resulting in mass hysteria and the execution of 34 or 35 people.
New York Conspiracy appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for British America: Empire and Revolution, especially British Settlement in North America and Problems within the Colonies.
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