Transcript The Colonies - Los Banos Unified School District

Chapter 3
The Colonies
Come of Age
Chapter 3.1
England and
Its Colonies
 Explain the economic
relationship between
England and its
American colonies.
 Describe how
tensions arose
between England
and the colonies.
 Summarize how
salutary neglect of
the colonies after
1688 planted the
seeds of selfgovernment.
Mercantilism
The competition
between nations for
wealth and trade.
Navigation Acts
Laws Parliament
made restricting
colonial trade.
Forced the colonies
to trade only with
England.
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Tensions Emerge
Merchants resented
the restrictions and
traded illegally.
Massachusetts’
charter was revoked
in 1684.
King James II made
all the Northern
colonies one, the
Dominion of New
England and
appointed Sir
Edmond Andros as
the ruler.
The Glorious
Revolution
In 1688 Parliament
invited William of
Orange to England
to rule.
Parliament then
passed laws
establishing power
over the monarch.
 Massachusetts’
charter was
restored in 1691.
King Charles II (1660-1685)
Angered by Mass. Refusal to obey
English law, he revoked the
colony’s charter in 1684 and
brought Mass. Under royal control.
James II (1685-1688)
He consolidated the Northern
colonies into the Dominion of New
England in 1686 and enlisted Sir
Edmund Andros to rule the region.
William and Mary (1689-1702)
Succeeded James II after the
Glorious Revolution and helped
establish the supremacy of
Parliament. Parliament then
restored the colonies’ charters.
Salutary Neglect
England relaxes its
enforcement of the
Navigation Acts in
return for continued
economic loyalty.
Governors
appointed by the
king ruled each
colony.
The colonists paid
their salaries and
had great influence.
Colonials began to
enjoy self rule.
Problem
Keeping the
colonies under
economic and
political control
Solution
1. In 1651: Navigation Acts
2. In 1686: Northern colonies
consolidated into the Dominion
of New England.
3. After 1688: Salutary Neglect
Chapter 3.2
The
Agricultural
South
 Trace the
development of a
plantation economy
in the American
South.
 Explain the way of
life in the Southern
colonies.
 Describe the slave
trade and the role of
slavery in the
plantation economy.
 Describe life for
colonial slaves.
The main cash crop
of the South was
tobacco.
Other crops were
rice, and indigo.
Plantations
developed instead
of towns because
of the long, deep
rivers that allowed
access to oceangoing
vessels.
Life in the South
There was a
diverse population.
A strong economy
due to the tobacco
crop.
Women were 2nd
class citizens along
with indentured
servants.
Women of the
“planter class” had
servants.
Slavery
Slaves were
considered
property of others.
At first, the
colonists used
Native Americans
as slaves.
By 1690 there were
13,000 and by
1750 there were
200,000.
Africans became
part of a triangular
trade network.
Middle Passage
Voyages that
brought Africans to
the West Indies
and North America.
Considered the
middle leg of the
trade triangle.
Most slaves worked
in the fields.
In 1739, 20 slaves
revolted in the
Stono Rebellion.
Many died, others
were executed.
Slave
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Chapter 3.3
The
Commercial
North
 Trace the
development of a
varied and thriving
economy in the
North.
 Explain the diverse
society of the North
and the tensions that
led to witchcraft trials
in Salem.
 Summarize the
influence of the
Enlightenment and
the Great Awakening.
Life in the North
Main commerce
was manufacturing,
fishing, and ship
building.
Big cities were
sprouting up.
Immigrants came
from all over
Europe.
Slavery did exist,
but not near the
level of the South.
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Salem Witch
Trials
Is this something
that could happen
in the U.S. today?
Why/Why not?
Enlightenment
New ideas based
on science and
reason.
Benjamin Franklin
embraced the
notion of obtaining
truth through
experimentation
and reasoning.
Enlightenment
ideas led many
colonists to
question the
authority of the
British Monarchy.
The Great Awakening
A spiritual revival
that led many to
leave their Puritan,
Anglican church for
Baptist and
Methodist.
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Jonathan Edwards
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Great
Awakening
Is this the kind of
preaching that we
are used to today?
Why do you think it
was so successful
at that time?
Chapter 3.4
The French
and Indian
War
 Trace the
development of the
French-British
colonial rivalry.
 Summarize the
French and Indian
War.
 Explain the war’s
effects on the
relationship between
Britain and its
colonies.
French & Indian War
Britain vs. France
Fought between
1754 and 1763.
War over land.
Effects
Britain Wins
Proclamation of
1763
Taxes
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Proclamation of 1763
Banned expansion
west of the
Appalachians.
British did not want
further conflicts with
Indians.
Due to the
overwhelming cost
of the War the
British began to tax
the Colonies.
Sugar Act
Halved the tax
on foreign made
molasses.
Placed taxes on
certain imports.
Strengthened
the enforcement
of prosecutions
for smuggling.