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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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0/the-taxman-cometh-thenavigation-act
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charter was revoked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
Passage
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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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trivia-quiz/World/SalemWitch-Trials-70048.html
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.
http://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=Zt57r
Fcpnr4
Jonathan Edwards
http://www.youtube.
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related
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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/story.php?storyId=1-96&videoId=1-6-3
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.