American Colonies and England Chapter 3 Section 2

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American Colonies and EnglandChapter 3 Section 2
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Objectives

• Explore how English traditions influenced the
  development of colonial governments.
• Analyze the economic relationship between England
  and its colonies.
• Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and
  the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies.

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Tradition of Self-Government.
Magna Carta
Parliament
Glorious Revolution
In 1215, English nobles made King John accept a
limitation to his taxation and guaranteed the
right to a trial.
two-house legislature composed of the House of
Lords, an inherited position, and the House of
Commons, elected by men with property.
The English overthrew King James and installed
William and Mary, who granted the English Bill of
Rights.
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Colonists were English subjects and self-ruling.
The colonists believed that the English Bill of
Rights applied to them, even though they lived in
the colonies.
Under Englands policy of salutary neglect, the
colonies enjoyed a long period of self-government
and individual liberties.
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The English Parliament passed trade laws called
the Navigation Acts.
The English laws successfully regulated colonial
trade to create great wealth and power for
England in the 1600s.
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Under the policy of mercantilism, the English
colonies exported raw materials only to England.
In exchange, the colonies bought manufactured
goods from England.
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• The Enlightenment

• Enlightenment thinkers stressed scientific
  reasoning and natural laws. They believed that
  human reason could be applied to society and
  government.
• Colonial leader Benjamin Franklin was inspired by
  the Enlightenment.

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Colonial democracy was influenced by

• the English parliamentary tradition
• the colonies having a long period of self-rule
• the new ideas of the European Enlightenment
• the Judeo-Christian religious influence on
  colonial people

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Role of Religion

• Many colonists had immigrated for religious
  reasons.
• Churches played a social role in colonial life.
• Churches served as public places for reading
  government proclamations, holding elections, and
  posting new laws.

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Preachers such as George Whitefield helped launch
a new religious movement called the Great
Awakening.

• Preachers traveled through the colonies and
  preached powerful, emotion-packed sermons.
• Many people left their old established churches
  to join the movement and start new churches.

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The Great Awakening gave rise to a changing
political awareness.

• Participants in the Great Awakening came to
  realize that if they could select their own
  religion, they could also select their own
  government.