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Ch 4

I. Economic Development and Imperial trade
    in the British Colonies
  A. Regulation of British Trade
     1. mercantilism
     2. Navigation Act of 1651
     3. enumerated products -
         tobacco, sugar, indigo, cotton, rice
     4. Parliament intended to limit European exports
         to the colonies
  B. Colonial Exports
     1. sugar - Molasses Act of 1733 -
         taxed foreign sugar products
     2. tobacco
     3. rice, naval stores, wheat
     4. Triangular Trade
  C. Colonial Imports - manufactured goods -
       cloth, leather, glassware, pottery,
  D. Colonial Urbanization
     1. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charles Town -
         sea ports
     2. craftsmen - shipbuilders, ropemakers, sailmakers 
    Colonial Williamsburg Trades    
     3. growing gap between rich and poor
     4. poverty
II. 18th Century Cultural Developments
  A. Houses and Household Goods
     1. furniture, carpets, china, silverware,
         tailor made clothes
        Eighteenth-Century Clothing             
  B. Intellectual Development
     1. The Enlightenment
       a. Franklin, lightning rod, bifocals, Franklin stove
     2. The Great Awakening
       a. Jonathan Edwards - 1734 - led revivals
       b. George Whitefield - 1739
       c. Founding of new colleges
        College of New Jersey (Princeton) 1746,
        College of Rhode Island (Brown),
        Queens College (Rutgers) 1766
III. Colonial Politics
   A. Dominion of New England
      1. Maine to New Jersey rules by Edmund Andros
      2. Andros imposed strict control
   B. The Glorious Revolution of 1688
      1. Parliament invited William and Mary to England
   C. Colonial and British Political Ideology
      1. colonials believed in their rights to make their
          own decisions
      2. Parliament claimed authority to make laws
          for all English citizens
      3. Board of Trade - recommended policy changes
      4. Navigation Act of 1696 - vice admiralty courts -
          settled maritime disputes and smuggling cases
      5. virtual representation
      6. actual representation
      7. governors
IV. Colonial  Expansion During the 18th Century
   A. Settlement of the Frontier -
        English, Scots Irish, Germans settled
      1. settlers forced Indians to move
          (Delawares, Shawnees, Catawbas)
   B. Spanish Settlement - Texas and California
      1. San Antonio 1718
      2. missions and forts built along California coast
   C. French Settlement of the Mississippi Valley
      1. small population of settlers
      2. alliances with Indians
V. 18th Century Colonial Warfare
   A. Warfare From 1689 - 1738
      1. King William's War - 1689 - 1697
         a. Grand Settlement of 1701
      2. Queen Anne's War - 1702 - 1713
         a. Deerfield - 1704
   B. King George's War,  1739 - 1754
      1. Louisbourg 1745
      2. French drove out Washington -
          built Fort Duquesne
   C. The French and Indian War, 1754 - 1763
      1. Albany Congress  
        a. Albany Plan of Union proposed for colonial
            defense - plan rejected
      2. Seven Years' War
      3. Braddock defeated at Fort Duquesne
      4. Montcalm
         a. Fort Oswego, Fort William Henry
         b. Battle of Quebec
      5. Treaty of Paris of 1763
         a. Britain gained control of Canada and Florida

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