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
Spanish succession
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
European 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
Navigation Acts
- colonial trade as national trade
- regulation of trade as political tool
- increase Parliamentary authority & influence of Church of England
- mercantilism: colonial goods may only be shipped to England
- flourishing inter-colonial smuggling trade
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