Colonial America

The Big Picture

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S

Wednesday, October 4

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today's class

  • how does this all fit together?
  • shifting balance of power: Europe
  • governing the Americas
  • shifting balance of power: NA

Taylor, Revolutions

  • How did James II's Catholicism and consolidation techniques end up sparking revolts amongst his American colonies?

how does all this fit together?

  • pre-contact politics inform politics of contact
  • global trade shapes labor systems
  • labor & gender form racial categories
  • enforcement of sex, gender & race categories seen as essential to social order
  • demographics & fear shapes law & political rights
  • chaos of 17th century leads to tighter oversight

balance of power

europe
europe

Spanish succession

europe
europe

governing the Americas

  • Lords Proprietor: religious toleration, quitrent, political representation
  • charter colonies: Plymouth, Virginia
  • proprietary colonies: NY, NJ, Carolina, Maryland, Penn
  • royal colonies: NY (1664), Virginia (1624)

Spanish success

spanish
spanish

European claims

claims
claims

religion & English Civil War

  • House of Lords + House of Commons + King/Queen
  • who can vote? who pays taxes? who votes for taxes?
  • "personal rule" & suspicion of Catholicism
  • Puritans "purifying" Church of England
  • English Civil War - 1642 - 1651

religion & Glorious Revolution

  • political parties associated with religion
  • English =/= Catholic
  • Catholic = despotic
  • deposition of ruler by Parliament
  • King-in-Parliament/Crown-in-Parliament
  • assemblies answer to King, not Parliament

balance of power NA

  • slavery-based economies bolster European growth
  • NA economic success demands greater oversight
  • colonial growth creates European tensions
  • Native powers play European groups off one another