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The Imperial System and Changing Culture of the Colonies The Imperial System and Changing Culture of the Colonies

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Mercantilism Mercantilism a set of ideas on how a Country should conduct economics Accumulate as much gold and silver as possible usually through colonies and trade Selfsufficient in raw materials ID: 263954

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The Imperial System and Changing Culture of the ColoniesSlide2

Mercantilism

Mercantilism: a set of ideas on how a Country should conduct economics

Accumulate as much gold and silver as possible (usually through colonies and trade)

Self-sufficient in raw materials

Prevented colonies from selling goods to other nations (only mother country could)Slide3

The Navigation Acts

1660, Charles II takes over throne

Wanted to regulate trade in colonies

Parliament passes Navigation Acts (1660)

The Navigation Acts: required all goods imported or exported from the colonies to be carried on English ships, also contained lists of raw materials that could be sold only to England

List included sugar, tobacco, lumber, cotton, wool, and indigo

Forced colonists to deal with English merchants only, whom of which would raise prices high for profitSlide4

The Staple Act

Three years after Navigation Acts (1663)

Staple Act: required everything the colonists imported to come through England first

All merchants from other countries had to stop in England, pay taxes, and then travel to the colonies

Caused other goods to be more expensive for colonistsSlide5

Toleration Act

English Bill of Rights produced after William and Mary succeed throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688

English Bill of Rights: granted more power to Parliament and restricted Kings and Queens with certain duties (taxes, gave freedom of speech, banned cruel and unusual punishment)

Toleration Acts were also passed later that year with the English Bill of Rights

Toleration Acts: granting freedom of worship to almost all Protestants but not to Catholics or Jews

English Bill of Rights would foreshadow the creation of the U.S. Bill of RightsSlide6

John Locke

Wrote

Two Treatises of Government

Believed in political obligation to human rights and justified revolutions of Governments

All people are born with natural rights given by God

Government’s and the people were in social contracts (if violated by Government, the people had the right to overthrow it)Slide7
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Population Growth in Colonies

Average of 7 children per household

From 1640-1700, population increased from 25,000 to more than 250,000 people in Colonies

By the American Revolution, the population would be 2.5 million peopleSlide9

Immigration

Besides high numbers of births, immigration played a major part in the population growth

German, Scottish, Irish, and Jewish populations all looked to America for religious freedom, freedom from oppression, and/or economic opportunities

Immigrants would settle in major cities and would also expand Westward for cheaper and more available landSlide10
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Africans in Colonial America

Independent African culture due to slavery and lack of influence around other cultures

Traditional religious beliefs mixed with Christian values to create to ideologies on religion

Music became deeply rooted in African American culture

Separated families happened regularly, thus African American’s began to use more unique names in order to pass on their family name and heritage

Were beaten, branded, treated like animals, even killed if tried to run away or rise up against the violence and mistreatmentSlide12

The Enlightenment

Enlightenment thinkers believed that natural laws applied to social, political, and economic relationships

This emphasis on logic and reasoning was known as rationalism

John Locke was a member of the Enlightenment Movement

Another Enlightenment member was Baron

Montequieu

In his work,

Spirit of the Laws

, believed that Government had 3 parts –executive, legislative, and judicial (sound familiar???)Slide13

The Great Awakening

Colonists began to experience pietism

Pietism: an European movement that stressed individual devoutness and an emotional union with God (individual being key)

Preacher sermons spread the word of Pietism through Revivals

Revivals: large public meetings for preaching and prayer

Caused spread of more Protestant religious sects such as Methodists and Baptists

Supported individualism (focus on ones self) just as Enlightenment period had