US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions
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** Glorious Revolution | ** Glorious Revolution | ||
** Restoration | ** Restoration | ||
* the primary method of governance was through charters, grants and trade regulations | * the primary method of governance was through charters, grants and trade regulations | ||
==== Royal charters & mercantilism | ** King James II's 1686 attempt to impose more direct rule of the colonies by revoking existing charters of most northeastern colonies into the "Dominion of New England" failed (see below) | ||
==== Royal charters & mercantilism ==== | |||
* colonial reorganization | * colonial reorganization | ||
** in order to control the colonial possessions, the British government/ King created or reorganized colonial charters | ** in order to control the colonial possessions, the British government/ King created or reorganized colonial charters | ||
** most | ** Plymouth colony, for example, never received a Royal charter and thus lacked legal standing after dissolution of the Dominion of New England in 1689 | ||
*** the proprietary colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania were excepted | ** and the Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter was revoked by James II | ||
*** especially targeted the Massachusetts Bay Colony for resisting the Navigation Acts | *** the British "Lords of Trade" incorporated them in 1691 into '''Province of Massachusetts Bay''' along with coast islands and most of modern Maine (but without New Hampshire) | ||
*** | ==== Dominion of New England ==== | ||
* in response to colonial resistance of the Navigation Acts, as well as in order to more directly rule the region | |||
** in 1686 King James II reorganized various New England and Mid-Atlantic colonial entities into the '''Dominion of New England''' | |||
*** the proprietary colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania were excepted | |||
*** especially targeted was the '''Massachusetts Bay Colony''' and Boston merchants for resisting the Navigation Acts | |||
* colonial resistance: | |||
** resented the revocation of their charters | |||
** and feared that the English King was trying to impose the Church of England | |||
*** the 1689 ''Boston revolt'' and ''Leisler Rebellion'' (in New York) resisted Dominion rule | *** the 1689 ''Boston revolt'' and ''Leisler Rebellion'' (in New York) resisted Dominion rule | ||
*** the Dominion was dismantled and new charters were granted after the Glorious Revolution under William & Mary | *** the Dominion was dismantled in 1689 and new charters were granted after the Glorious Revolution under William & Mary | ||
* '''mercantilism''' | * '''mercantilism''' | ||
** European political and economic policy of forcing colonial possessions to trade directly with the home country and not others | ** European political and economic policy of forcing colonial possessions to trade directly with the home country and not others |
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US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries
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Colonial America growth[edit | edit source]
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Population growth[edit | edit source]
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BIG IDEAS DETAILS Tobacco economy[edit | edit source]
British governance of early colonies[edit | edit source]
Royal charters & mercantilism[edit | edit source]
Dominion of New England[edit | edit source]
Salutary neglect[edit | edit source]
click EXPAND for excerpt from Burke's speech to Parliament in 1775: “That I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me.” |
Southern colonial economies & demographics[edit | edit source]
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cash crops[edit | edit source]plantation economy[edit | edit source]coastal elites[edit | edit source]
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Bacon's Rebellion[edit | edit source]slavery[edit | edit source] |
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Colonial slavery[edit | edit source]
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slavery & slave culture
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New England colonial expansion[edit | edit source]
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>> see Taylor on 1/4th of Boston freeman had ownership of a ship |
central colonies[edit | edit source]
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Colonial wars[edit | edit source]
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"French & Indian Wars" include:
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1675–1678 | King Philip's War | n/a - independent of European conflicts or involvement |
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1688–1697 | King William's War |
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1702–1713 | Queen Anne's War | War of the Spanish Succession |
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1722–1725 | Dumner's War |
n/a - colonial war
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1739 | War of Jenkin's Ear |
n/a - colonial conflict
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1744–1748 | King George's War | War of the Austrian Succession |
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1754–1763 | French-Indian War | Seven Years' War | to be discussed in subsequent timeline & concepts chart |