Upload
harold-ruddick
View
223
Download
0
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Colonist in North America• North American colonies much healthier - life expectancy & family size (p 70)
English trade in Colonies• Autonomous English colonies
- self-governance
- 1650- trade was most economical (Dutch)
- English Civil War (1642-49)
Theory of Mercantilism
• control of colonial trade essential for power
• colonies provide raw materials & serve as markets for the finished goods
English Navigation Act• Parliament banned foreign ships (1650)
- goods imported only through English ships
• foreign trade prohibited
• Why did this anger the colonist?
Restoration Navigation Acts
• Navigation Act of 1660
• Established “enumerated commodities”
• English monopoly
Colonial conflicts with Indians
• 1670- no clear boundaries
- any settlement vulnerable to an attack
• “new world” for Indians
- guns, alcohol, Christianity etc.
Metacom, Indian Chief of the Wampanoags
• If I became “a praying sachem, I shall be a poor and weak one, and easily trod upon”
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
• Sir William Berkeley / Virginia
- taxes, favoritism & servants
• Nathaniel Bacon
• raised army & attacked Indians
• arrested & forced to apologize
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
• Declaration of the People
• led army to Jamestown
• revolts against wealthy
• 1st popular rebellion
• revolutionary seeds