United States History 1301

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Why England Could not Before The 1600Move out in
Exploration

• The instability of the Tudor Monarchs
• Internal Rebellion
• The threat of invasion by other countries.

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Why England Could Move out in Exploration in the
1600

• The Stability of the Stewart Monarchs
• James I 1603-1625
• Charles I 1625-1649
• Rise in middle Class
• Surplus Population
• A booming woolen industry
• Protestant Reformation 31 Oct.1517

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Protestant Reformation

• Martin Luther (1483-1546)
• Born Eisleben, Germany
• 1505 Joined the Augustinian Hermits in Erfurt
• 1521 Excommunication
• 1529 Marburg Colloquy

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Four Characteristics of Luther

• Biblicists
• Humanist
• Patriot
• Appealed to Mystics

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MERCANTILISM

• Mercantilism is the type of relationship that
  developed between mother country and her
  colonies.
• What mercantilism is supposed to to
• strengthen the mother country at the expense of
  its rivals.
• Sell more than it buys
• How did colonies relate to the mother country

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Mercantilism continued

• How colonies related to mother country
• Supply mother country with goods it could not
  produce at home.
• Buy from the mother country finished products.
• Allow themselves to be exploited in any way
  possible to benefit the mother country.

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England-colonies relate

• Regulate colonial trade,to prevent goods from
  leaving the empire.
• Discourage any manufacturing which might compete
  with the British.

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Acts of Trade and Navigation

• 1660-1740s
• Act of Navigation
• all goods entering England must be carried on
  English ships or ships of producing country.
• Trade with the British colonies was confined to
  British ships with at least three-quarters of
  crew being British.

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Act of Navigation Continued

• Enumerated Articles list these articles could
  only go from colonial America to England
• Tobacco
• Sugar
• Cotton
• Indigo
• Ginger
• Dyewoods

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Acts of Trade and Navigation

• Other acts of regulation for the colonies were
• The Molasses Act 1773, a heavy tax on non-British
  molasses.
• Hat Act, forbade the manufacturing of hats.
• Iron Act, prohibited the production of Iron
  implements.
• Woolens Act, forbade the production of woolen
  cloth for export.

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SUMMARY OF CHAPTER I

• Exploratory voyages
• Economic Motives
• Religious Motives

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