The Colonial Period Flashcards
Why did they go to Am?
Puritans : escape religious persecution
Other colonies : Jamestown: business reasons
Some private charter companies : trading charter English Crown
Charter = document which the colonists/settlers/colonizers should obtain from the king in order to be able to go to America : private companies
- eco rights
- political same judicial authorities
1607-1776 : British colonies in North America
Larger plantation : South Carolina and Virginia : tabaco,corn,rice
Colonists established: Shipyard = build the fishing fleets and commercial/trading vessels/iron forges
XIX : regional specialization:
- New England : shipbuilding
- Maryland: plantation
- New Jersey/Pennsylvania: trade
Standards of living : HIGH
Provide Britain : raw materials——>manufactured goods in Britain
Mercantilism
Commercial relationships between Britain and its colonies = mercantilism (Adam Smith)
Economic nationalism : building a powerful state/exploitation of the colonies/make a dominant country/richer limiting imports from the colonies except RM
Slogan :”export as much as possible and import as little as possible”
Serve interest of merchants : protected by the state
Dominated Western European economic doctrine and policies from 16’s-18’s
Shipping important
Collapse : Britain = impose taxes and trade restrictions on the colonies
Laws =Act of Parliaments :
1660-1663 = The Navigation Acts
Limited the carrying of trade to and from the colonies : benefit of British merchants
1663 : Staple Act
All colonial goods should first go to England before being exported to Europe
Britain wanted to control all the eco
Importing activities: limited
Make English merchants richer
1764 : Suagr Act
Imposed taxes on foreign sugar
West Indies : sugar planters British : wanted the colonies to import their sugar
Make the planters richer
England/France : war (Quebec) + Indian war(7years:1756-63)
Colonist British side (against French and Indian)
Victory Britain (TREATY OF PARIS)
1765 : STAMP ACT
Imposed taxes on papers: licences,sell liquors,diplomas
Merchants colonies : denounced British policies + signed doc = INTERCOURSE AGREEMENTS = not to buy from British
+ new organizations = SON OF LIBERTY : attack Stamp Act
TOWNSHEND ACT
Taxes on tea,glass,products imported by the colonies = unacceptable
BOYCOTT
December 1773 : BOSTON TEA PARTY
200 colonist disguised as Indians : shipload of tea (arbor of Boston)
13 colonies = 13 States of USA
July 4th,1776 : DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Colonists = right to :
- select own representatives to govern
- trade with the rest of the world without restrictions
// Britain refused
1775-1783 : AMERICAN REVOLUTION
13 colonies / Britain
4th of July the 13 colonies declared their INDEPENDENCE
Dvlp own activities and markets
