A New King

•King James II became king after his older

brother King Charles II died without a

legitimate son.

•The new king only saw the new colonies as

a way to make more money.

Compromise

•The crown generally worked out a rough

compromise between the imperial power

and the colonial autonomy.

•Because of the compromise the colonies

and England became more closely

intertwined in a shared empire.

In their intertwined commercial and military

successes, the British and their colonists

found the measure of their virtues. By

prospering in both trade and war, the

empire seemed to prove the equation that

the Protestant Succession, the British

Union, the common law, and individual

liberties combined go create national

wealth, imperial power, and individual

happiness (Taylor 300).

•In the eighteenth century a plethora of

British ships brought tons of information,

goods, and people across the Atlantic

Ocean.

•More than any other eighteenth-century

empire, the British relied on foreign

emigrants for human capital (Taylor 303).

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Trade

• the Navigation Acts locked the

Chesapeake and the West Indies into

shipping their tobacco and sugar directly to

England.

•The improved flow of information and

more complex patterns of commerce

boosted economic growth in the colonies.

•The growing endowed free colonists with

a higher standard of living than their

counterparts in Europe.

Emigrants

•English

•Scots

•Germans

•Africans (not by free will)

Establishments

•Myth says that English colonists fled

from religious persecution; however, not

all colonists had felt persecuted at home,

and few wanted to live in a society that

tolerated a plurality of religions.

•Most colonies’ founders believed that

public morality, political harmony, and

social order required religious uniformity.

•Congregationalists sustained an

especially impressive establishment in

New England, except for Rhode Island.

•In Maryland and Virginia, the

establishment proved a mixed blessing

for clergymen, who depended financially

upon vestries dominated by great

planters.

Radicals

•Evangelicals became subdivided into

moderates and radicals.

•They both were committed to

“experimental religion.”

•The radicals rejected any church

establishment as corrupting to both religion

and government.

•They gloried in the emotional and physical

outbursts of the revivals as pure

manifestations of God’s overwhelming

power.