American Colonies

Various Chapters and Subjects of Interest

Terry Onley

Men and Money

After the “Glorious Revolution”,England spent huge amounts of moneyon the war with France. The militarygrew to unprecedented proportions.

All that money had to come from somewhere…

Sowing the seeds of discontent…

Pirates! A merry Life, and a short one…

At the end of the 17th Century, theBritish reassessed their formerlenient (they authorized the pirate’sendeavors) stance on piracy.

The pirates began to look like liabilities to successful empire.

Goods

Alexander Hamilton thought that Luxuryshould be confined to the Rich alone…What a jerk! The proliferation of reasonably priced consumer goods in the colonies allowed many less thanwealthy folk to enjoy unseemly luxuries.

You’d have thought they would havepreferred the crummy stuff…

Nice looking-glass, Alice!

Revivals!

Whitefield preaching…

Big stuff in the early 18th Century;Fire and Brimstone and the promise of Heaven… search yoursouls. Brothers and Sisters, are yousaved, or are you gonna burn in

Hell for ETERNITY?!?!

Horses and Guns

The introduction of guns and horses to the aboriginal population changed their livesforever… war and hunting became at thesame time easier, and in the case of war, far more deadly.

Lots easier to make raids onthe settlers villages, too.

OOPS!!

Guns became a life-or-death necessity.

Missions

Ahh, the lovely,idyllic Missionsof California…

Where the good Franciscan Brothersconverted and enslaved the localIndians, creating a legacy of hatredand distrust that endures to this day…

MissionsHorses and Guns

Revivals!

Goods

Pirates!!

Men and Money

Of course, most of these topicsare still with us in the present…The aristocratic descendents of Alexander Hamilton

inextricably entwined these…

TV evangelists! Moonies!Hmmm… I’ll have to get back to you on this one.

The End