HSTY2034: Lecture Seven

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HSTY2034 Lecture Seven

• Consolidating the English Empire in North
  America

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Regions in 18th Century North America
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Outline 1

• Consolidation of the British Empire
• Glorious Revolution (1688)
• Mercantilism
• Navigation Acts

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Outline 2

• Slavery as a factor in empire-building
• Demography of the slave trade
• Slavery as mainspring of British Empire
• Stimulating growth of manufacture
• Profits ? investment
• Raw material
• Wars for Empire
• Lack of Colonial Protest

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The African Slave Trade
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Triangular Trade Across the Atlantic
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Slave Ship Plan
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Olaudah Equiano
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Outline 3

• The Middle Colonies the Lower South
• New York
• Pennsylvania and New Jersey
• German and Scots-Irish immigration
• Carolinas
• Georgia

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Ethnic Groups in 18th c. British N. America
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