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KEY IDEA
England and its largely self-governing
colonies prospered under a mutually
beneficial trade relationship.
OVERVIEW
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OVERVIEW
MAIN IDEA
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
England and its largely selfgoverning colonies prospered
under a mutually beneficial trade
relationship.
The colonial system of selfgoverning colonies was the
forerunner of our modern system
of self-governing states.
TERMS & NAMES
• Navigation Acts
• Parliament
• Dominion of New England
• Sir Edmund Andros
• mercantilism
• Glorious Revolution
• salutary neglect
ASSESSMENT
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1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts.
List the steps that England took to solve its economic
and political problems with the colonists.
Problem
Keeping the colonies under
economic and political
control
Solution
1. In 1651:
Navigation Acts
2. In 1686:
Northern colonies consolidated into
the Dominion of New England.
3. After 1688:
Salutary neglect
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2. In 1707, a British mercantilist wrote:
“The time may come…when the colonies may become
populous and with the increase of the arts and science
strong and politic, forgetting their relation to the
mother countries, will then confederate and consider
nothing further than the means to support their
ambition of standing on their [own] legs.”
Explain why the British did not want this to happen.
ANSWER
Under mercantilism, Great Britain prized the economic value of the American colonies.
The colonists’ economic and political independence might weaken the British economy
by upsetting its balance of trade and by creating a scarcity of raw materials.
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3. How did political events in England affect the lives of
the colonists?
ANSWER
James II disbanded local assemblies in New England and
placed the northern colonies under a single ruler in
Boston. After the Glorious Revolution, when James fled
and Parliament offered the throne to William and Mary,
Parliament dissolved the Dominion of New England and
restored the colonies’ charters.
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4. Britain established policies to control the American
colonies but was inconsistent in its enforcement of
those policies. What results might be expected from
such inconsistency?
ANSWER
This kind of inconsistency may have encouraged colonies
to ignore British laws and to resist British authority.
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