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●Have out your outline from yesterday
●Take out a piece of paper for notes
The American Revolution
Colonial Americans Develop an
Independent Way of Thinking
What Led to an Independent Way of
Thinking?
●Factors that led to
ideas of
independence:
1.Geography
2.Colonial legislatures
3.Salutary Neglect
4.Enlightenment
Factor 1: Geography
●The distance from
Great Britain to the
American colonies
o 3,000 mile Atlantic
Ocean
●People that were
willing to colonize
the new world were
more independent
by nature
Factor 2: Colonial Legislatures
●Colonial legislatures
o gave colonies a certain
amount of
independence in
governing
●House of Burgesses
●Mayflower Compact
The First Permanent English
Settlement: Jamestown
●Jamestown, Virginia
o1st permanent
English settlement in
North America
●Founded in 1607 by
the Virginia Company
●Jamestown was a jointstock company
Jamestown
●King James I issued a
charter
o a document granting land
and the authority to set
up colonial governments
●In 1619, the House of
Burgesses was formed
House of Burgesses
●“Burgess” means:
o An elected or appointed
official
●First meeting
o July 30, 1619 in a church
in Jamestown
●22 elected members
met as the House of
Burgesses
House of Burgesses cont.
●Representatives could make
laws
●In 1624, King James I
revoked the charter of the
Virginia Company
●Jamestown became a Royal
Colony
o a colony owned and ruled
directly by the king
House of Burgesses cont.
●House of Burgesses
grew in power due to
the English Civil War
(1642-1648)
●Impacted the
Revolutionary War
o Patrick Henry, George
Washington, and Thomas
Jefferson were all famous
burgesses
The Mayflower Compact
●Mayflower
o Ship that transported the
pilgrims to North America
●Compact
o an agreement among a group
of people
●Mayflower Compact
o A written plan for governing
themselves in order to survive
in the new land
Town Meetings
●Mayflower Compact
established town
meetings
●Town meetings are an
example of direct
democracy:
o citizens addressed local
problems and issues
directly
●Only men who owned
land could vote
Factor 3: Salutary Neglect
●Salutary Neglect
o healthy neglect
●British didn’t strictly
enforce commerce
laws with the colonies
●Sir Robert Walpole
o “If no restrictions were
placed on the colonies,
they would flourish”
Salutary Neglect Changes:
Mercantilism
●Mercantilism:
o The idea that a country
should have more exports
than imports to be
successful
●King George III
●Great Britain changed
their “loose control”
policy toward the
American colonies
Mercantilism
●Great Britain
needed the
colonies:
o source of cheap,
raw materials
●Navigation Acts
●Triangular Trade
Mercantilism:
Navigation Acts
●Series of Navigation
Acts
o passed between 16511733 by English
Parliament
●Restricted colonial
trade for the benefit of
Britain
Mercantilism:
Navigation Acts cont.
●1st Navigation Act
o passed in 1651; directed
against Dutch Trade
(little impact)
● Navigation Act 1660
o Required certain goods
(tobacco, rice, cotton)
from the colonies to be
shipped only to England
(impacted colonists)
Mercantilism:
Navigation Acts cont.
●The 1663 Navigation Act
o Also known as the Staple Act
o Stated that all colonial
exports have to be
transported in British ships
o All colonial imports had to
pass through English ports
Mercantilism:
Navigation Acts
●Navigation Acts of 1673,
1696, and 1733
o Increased the duties, or
taxes, on goods
o Created courts in Colonial
America to enforce
Navigation Acts
The Effects of the Navigation Acts
●As a whole, the
Navigation Acts:
o Alienated the colonists
o Prepared them for a
final break with the
‘mother land’
Mercantilism:
Triangular Trade
●Concept behind
triangular trade:
o One region trades goods
they have an abundance
of in exchange for those
goods that are scarce in
their own region
Triangular Trade:
Slave Trade
●The Slave Trade is an
example of triangular
trade
●African slaves were
crucial in growing
colonial cash crops
Factor 4: Enlightenment
●Many revolutionary
leaders had studied the
major writings of the
Enlightenment thinkers,
such as:
o Thomas Hobbes
o John Locke
o Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Albany Plan
●Conference in Albany,
New York in 1754
●Colonies debated a
plan for a federal
union
●Committee was led by
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
●Owner of the
Pennsylvania Gazette
in 1729
●Influential in the
American Revolution
Classwork/Homework
●You learned that four factors contributed to an
independent mindset of colonists that ultimately
played an important role in pursuing independence
from Great Britain.
●First, what are these four factors?
●Next, place each of the factors in order from less
significant to most significant in contributing to a
desire for independence from Great Britain.
●Then, for each factor you must briefly explain the
factor and why you gave it the placement you did
(4-5 complete sentences).
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