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THE COLONIES COME OF AGE
The South, The North, and a War with the French.
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Mercantilism
Competition to acquire the most gold Colonies are a source of raw materials & a
market for British goods
The American colonies serve but two purposes: to be a source of raw materials and a market for British goods.
I gotsta get paid!
King Charles II Colonial
Merchant
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Navigation Acts of 1651
Restricted colonial trade All colonial trade has to go through England Good for England and most colonists Some colonial merchants resist
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Crackdown in Massachusetts
Punish colonists smuggling goods
Revoke Mass.’s charter Maine to New Jersey:
Dominion of New England
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Sir Edmund Andros
Installed as D.O.N.E.’s royal governor
Restricts local assemblies and levies taxes without input from local leaders.
Hated by almost everyone in America
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Glorious Revolution
King of England is a Catholic, James II
Ignores Parliament Has a son
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William & Mary
William of Orange: Dutch royal
Mary: Protestant daughter of James II
Parliament votes to install as new monarchs
Supremacy of Parliament New England colonies
get their charters back
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Salutary Neglect: England Gets Bored
Raw materials keep flowing Colonists keep buying English
goods Relaxed enforcement of
regulations
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Royal Authority Weakens
Colonial governors appointed by the Crown
Paid by colonial assemblies Who really controls these
governors? Why doesn’t England keep the
reins tightened?
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The Agrarian South
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Southern Plantation Economy Cash crops dominate southern economy Plantations instead of towns Shipped crops to the North & England Rural & Self-sufficient
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Planters vs. Farmers
Planters: wealthy owners of large estates Controlled southern economy, politics & society Small Farmers: European immigrants; poor to
Middle Class 1713-1774: tobacco exports in the Chesapeake
tripled
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What role did women play in the South?
Could not vote Educated in social graces or domestic tasks Working Class: cook, clean, garden, sew, milk cows,
slaughter pigs Planter Class: be rich (servants handled household
chores)
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Indentured Servants
Poor white men Indentured themselves
to escape poverty in Europe
When freed, scratched out a living in the western parts of southern colonies
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Slavery in the South
Agrarian economy demands labor Slaves brought from Africa 1750: 200,000 slaves in America 80-90% farm work Full-time work by 12 some slaves rented out
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Olaudah Equiano
Captured by slave traders as a boy Enslaved in Barbados & Virginia Sold to British Naval Officer Bought his freedom in 1766 Leading abolitionist in Britainhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X485Irzty-E
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Slave Trade
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Middle Passage
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The Commercial North
1650-1750: colonial economy grows faster than Britain’s
Northern agriculture diverse – examples?
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Northern Industry
Commerce grows in New England Fishing, lumber, shipbuilding 1760: 1/3 of all British ships built in the colonies Merchant class grows powerful
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Life in the North
Urban – Boston, Philadelphia, NYC Open squares, parks, police, and lit sidewalks Lack of firewood and water – garbage floods the
streets
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Life in the North
Germans and Scots-Irish pour into the North – Positives?
Slavery exists, though less incentive than in the South
No political rights for women – expected to obey their husbands
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The Enlightenment
Movement of the 1700s World is scientific, not
magical Truth through reason
and experimentation How does the
Enlightenment influence political thought?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRR7CWLCZI English Philosopher John Locke
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Great Awakening
Religious movement mid-1700s Response to the decline of the Puritan church in New
England Revival meetings held throughout colonies Challenged authority of traditional churches How does the Great Awakening influence political thought?
Puritan Preacher Jonathan Edwards
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The Other North American Empire…France
1608: Quebec founded
Control entire Mississippi River Valley
Population only 70,000 (1 million British colonists)
How did French colonies differ from British?
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French & Indian War
Great Britain v. France British attempts to evict
the French from Ft. Duquesne fail
New British PM William Pitt stunts French success
Iroquois now supporting British
Decisive British victory in Quebec
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Aftermath of War
Britain: all territory east of Mississippi
Spain: all French land west of Mississippi
France: keep small islands in near Newfoundland & West Indies
Indians: must now deal with British
Proclamation of 1763: Britain forbids colonial expansion beyond the Appalachian Mtns
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Tensions Emerge
1761: Britain cracks down on smuggling 10,000 British troops stationed in
America Britain’s national debt doubled from the
war 1764: Sugar Act