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to gain a favorable balance of trade
-results- more gold coming in than out
-self-sufficient
Role of colonies?
1. Provide raw materials that mother country lacked
2. Provide a market for mother country to sell finished goods to |
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*Made to enforce Mercantilism
1. lists of enumerated goods that colonies could only be sent to England- tobacco, indigo, some naval stores, iron
2. Any goods shipped to/from colonies were to go to England first
3. Ships carrying goods had to be British (English or Colonial)
4. 3/4 of crew had to be British
England- lax enforcement- flourishing economically flourishing in both places with few 17th century problems |
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| Benign, intentional neglect of enforcement |
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James I-Okay
Charles I- Puritan Civil War/his execution
Charles II
James II- established Dominion of New England (ended all charters, all New England royal colonies, abolished assemblies- Edmund Androc |
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1688
-replaced by William and Mary
1. Parliamentary Superiority
2. 1689- English Bill of Rights |
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1754-1763 (end=turning point)
conflict over Ohio River Valley
Britain wins- Treaty of Paris 1763-terms?
-Britain all land east of Mississippi and Canada
-Spain gets everything West of Mississippi- gives up Florida |
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| England was the World Super Power |
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| War leaves England with 3 problems |
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1. Debt of 72 mil prior to war- Post 132-137 mil
2. Keep the new subjects happy... make them loyal Br. Subjects (France, Spanish, Native Am)
3. Land? What to do with it? How to divide it up? Administer it? |
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| No Colonization West of the Appalachians |
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1764
taxes molasses (French Caribbean)-> NE (Rum)
-cut tax in 1/2 but finally enforced
--with writs of assistance- violates privacy
-vice admirality court
-no juries |
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1765
colonists learned to rebel
taxed all legal documents- newspapers, etc
-Hardest hit? lawyers/publishers
3 types of protest:
1. violent- Oliver, Hutchinson
2. Economic-boycott British goods
3. political- Stamp Act Congress- wrote Dec of Rights and Grievances
*first internal tax in colonies (a tax passed purely to raise revenue)
-colonists argue that i tax must only be passed in colonial assemblies (represent)
Versus taxes created for the purpose of regulating trade- Sugar Act (external tax purpose- stop purchase of foreign goods) |
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1767
New Prime Minister
colonists have high hopes "Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England" |
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