Transcript 13 Colonies were like a pack of “life savers” All had

Common Ingredients
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• Common ingredients
• Each Life Saver candy contains sugar, corn
syrup, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid and
artificial coloring. Each Life Saver in the 5flavor pack contains around 11 calories, 3 g of
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13 Colonies were like a pack of “life savers”
All had common “British ingredients” but
soon developed their own distinct flavors !
All were trade colonies !
COMMON INGREDIENTS
Common Ingredients
• Extensions of the Mother Country - MERCANTILISM
All loyal British subjects and had ties to the crown
• All had charters to colonize /corp./crown/prop.
Charter
Royal Colony
Proprietary Colony
Plymouth Colony
Joint Stock Co.
• • Not a huge gap between rich and poor
Most were courageous commoners
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Debtors
Farmers
Indentured servants
People Discontent with the old life wanted a new start
Religious zealots
• Some were skilled craftsmen and gentry class adventures!
• Joint stock owners
Common ingredient
Willing to Experiment
• Willing to try new forms of political
participation and looked for new ways for the
colony to survive in an fragile environment.
• Relied on hard work to survive. Owned the
land they worked on. Self motivated!
• Willing to take a risk everything in order to
gain a better way of life !
Flavor of Government
• Joint Charter Colonies – established by groups of
settlers who had been given a charter, or grant of
rights and privileges. These colonies elected
their own governors and representatives.
• Proprietary Colonies– rules by individuals or
groups to whom Britain had granted land rights.
Power shared between proprietor and colonists.
• Royal or Crown Colonies – Britain directly rules
these colonies. Governors were appointed by
Parliament and did what Great Britain demanded.
• Only white men who owned property had the
right to vote and represent colonists in elected
assemblies.
New England Government
• Joint Stock - Charters –
Governor could not veto
acts of legislature – Gov.
elected by voters
• Royal Charter – Gov.
appointed by the King
ruled directly by England
/customized by colonists
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Fundamental Orders
of Connecticut
Connecticut
Charter
New Hampshire
Royal Charter
Massachusetts
Royal Charter
Rhode Island
Charter
Middle Colonies Government
• Proprietary –
• rule by proprietors
• Equality &Religious
Tolerance
• Freedom of the Press
• Strong Courts
New York
Royal Charter
Pennsylvania
Proprietary
New Jersey
Royal Charter
Delaware
Proprietary
Southern Colonies Government
• Royal and Proprietary
Charters.
• The House of
Burgesses
• Colonies run for the
profits of the JointStock Company or
Proprietors / lots of
Direct trade with the
the Mother Country
Maryland
Proprietary
Virginia
Royal Charter
North Carolina
Royal Charter
South Carolina
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Georgia
Royal Charter
Common ingredients in Colonial Government
Patterned after British Parliament
• Elected legislature
• Two House Assembly
• Upper House: richest / most important or
educated men in the colony (some appointed)
• Lower House: (Assembly) members elected by
the colonists.
• Laws had to be approved by both houses
and the governor .
Crown Colonies = King also had to approve laws!