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*** the proprietary colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania were excepted | ** and the Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter was revoked by James II | ||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 | ||