American Colonies

1
American Colonies

• Founding to revolution

2

• Roanoke
• Failed, wanted gold
• Were not prepared
• Jamestown
• successful
• Plymouth
• Settled by Puritans
• Mayflower Compact
• Maryland
• Proprietary

• Connecticut
• Orders of Connecticut
• Pennsylvania
• Brotherly Love Quakers

3

• Age of Enlightenment
• Science and reason
• Great Awakening
• Jonathan Edwards brought religion to common man
• Mercantile System
• Trade with England (raw materials and manuf.
  Goods)
• Navigation Acts
• Control trade with colonies
• Royal commission

4

• Glorious Revolution
• 1689
• Overthrew King James
• Mary and William share throne
• Bill of Rights signed
• Promise to consult Parliament

5

• 1696 Navigation Acts
• Writs of Assistance
• Rules for searching ships
• Admiralty Court
• Military court. You are not presumed innocent
• 1754- Fr. Ind. War
• 7 Years war in Europe
• George III- harsh ruler

6

• Proclamation 1763
• Land west of Appalachian Mts. Given to Indians
• 1764- Sugar Act
• Aimed at Merchants but effected all colonist
• 1765- Stamp Act
• Tax on paper, newspaper, wills, contracts
• Sons Of Liberty
• Protest group founded by Samuel Adams James
  Otis
• House of Burgesses
• Legislative body in Virginia

7

• Stamp Act congress
• Organized to work to get the Stamp Act repealed
• Declaratory Act
• Tax on imported goods
• Townshend Act
• Prime minister of England pushed this tax to tax
  everything
• Revenue Act

8

• Boston Massacre
• Patrick Henry- propaganda

9

• 1772
• Sam Adams
• Boston Tea Party 1773

10

• 1774
• 1st Continental Congress
• Compromise
• Move toward Indep.

11

• 2nd Continental Congress
• no authority
• no resources
• George Washington
• commander

12

• 1775
• Olive Branch Petition
• 1776- Common Sense
• Thomas Paine pamphlet about what the colonies
  should do.