HIST 346U
Colonial-Revolutionary America
Fall 2003
E. Nybakken
INSTABILITY AT THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
I. Underlying Causes
A. General expansion and maturation
B. New groups challenging old elites
C. Native American resistence
D. Imperial Centralization
E. Glorious Revolution
II. Imperial Centralization: Laws, Administration, Enforcement
A. Intent of mercantilism (Navigation Acts)
B. Chronology of Activity
1. First, Second, Third Navigation Acts (1660-1663)
2. First Dutch War, 1664 (New York taken)
3. Joint Council on Trade & Plantations, 1672/3
4. Fourth (?) Navigation Act, 1673, Customs collectors to southern
colonies
5. Lords of Trade established, (1676)
6. Edward Randolph: Imperial-professional bureaucrat (1664- 1684)
7. Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, 1684-1689)
8. Glorious Revolution of 1688-9
9. Board of Trade (1696); Vice Admiralty courts to colonies & “writs of
assistance” allowed.
10. “Salutary Neglect”: 1713 (Utrecht) to 1750's Newcastle etc.
III. Native American Resistance to English Expansion
A. New England
1. Metacom (King Philllip) War, 1675-76
a. causes
b. progress
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c. result
2. Participation in King William’s War (1689-97)
B. Virginia: Bacon’s Rebellion 1676
C. Carolina: Yamassee War, 1715-16
IV. New Elite v. Old Elites
(Glorious Revolution ‘s effect in this as well)
A. Virginia
1.Social & Political Background
a. English experience:
social= political
b. Virginia, 1618-1625:
social=political
c. Virginia, 1625-1660
social= not really; political=yes
d. Virginia, 1660-1676
social=yes: political=no
2. situation in 1676
a. social & political setting “Green Spring Faction”
b. general economics and effect of Navigation Acts
c. taxes
d. office holding
e. Bacon’s Rebellion
1. progress
2. aftermath
B. New England
1. Early economic endeavors
2. Growth of colonial merchants
a. after 1640
b. mobility
c. nature of trade
3. Economic effects
4. Social & psychological effects
5. Political effects
a. unhappy with Puritan government
b. challenge Puritan oligarchy
6. Charter revoked
7. Royal colony, 1691
C. New York: Glorious Revolution
1. Dominion of New England
2. Leisler’s Rebellion
D. Maryland: Glorious Revolution
1. Protestant Association
2. Proprietor out until 1715
IV. Salem Witchcraft Trials: Case Study of the Period
A. Facts of Incidents
B. Role of “underlying factors”
1. Maturation & expansion
2. Religious “declension”
3. New v. Old elite
4. Indian wars
5. Land & economic problems
6. Gender issues
7. Weather & ergot
8. Absence of chartered government
V. Enter Modernity of the Eighteenth Century