Imperial Systems
SWBAT: EVALUATE
CONFLICTS AND PREDICT
WHAT IS DEVELOPING IN
THE COLONIES
Do Now
HW Review: How did the
Great Awakening contribute
to American identity?
Fill in graphic organizer:
“Early Colonial Conflicts”
for your conflict only
Significance of Great Awakening
 Churches lost authority  Divisions
 Separation of church and state
 View of authority  democratization
 5 new colleges:
Princeton- Presbyterian “Under God's Power She Flourishes”
Columbia- Anglican
Brown- Baptist
Rutgers- Reformed
Dartmouth- Congregationalist
Each One, Teach One!
 Form groups of 7 (each member will
have a different conflict)
 Each classmate will share their
findings for their conflict with their
group members
 Your graphic organizers should be
complete at the end of your group
session (25 minutes!)
Mercantilism
 British economic policy for colonies
post- 1650
 Colonies exist to provide raw
materials to “mother country”
 enrich “mother country”
 Used by Spain & France from the
start of colonization
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
 Series of acts between 1650-1673
 3 rules for colonial trade
A.
B.
C.
Trade to and from colonies only by
English/colonial ships operated by
English/colonial crews
All goods imported into colonies had to pass
through English ports
“Enumerated” goods from colonies could
only be exported to England (tobacco was the
1st)
 SMUGGLING!
Navigation Acts
 Economic effects of the policy in the colonies?
- shipbuilding in N.E. grows
- Chesapeake tobacco monopoly
- English protect the colonies
- limit development of colonial
manufacturing
- Chesapeake farmers forced to accept low
prices
- colonists forced to pay high prices for
manufactured goods!
Salutary Neglect
 An unofficial policy of avoiding
British enforcement of laws on the
colonies in the 17th and 18th
centuries
- no real British presence
- assemblies left alone
- thought colonies would flourish
 Lasts from 1607 to 1763
Wrap Up
 How do these developments reflect
Britain’s attitude toward its
colonies?
 What matters did Parliament seek
to control the colonies, and in what
matters did it grant them
autonomy?
 Can you predict what is developing
and why?