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The American Colonies

The American Colonies. America’s 1 st Colonies. Jamestown was the first permanent colony in America, founded in 1607 by merchants.

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The American Colonies

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  1. The American Colonies

  2. America’s 1st Colonies • Jamestown was the first permanent colony in America, founded in 1607 by merchants. • Jamestown set up a representative democracy in the form of the House of Burgesses (22 members elected by colonist). It was not very powerful by begins self government. • Plymouth was another colony by the pilgrims who signed a document called the mayflower compact that set up a direct democracy.

  3. COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS • EXECUTIVE BRANCH • Governor • Appointed by • King or Elected • LEGISLATIVE BRANCH • Many were Bicameral • Elected Members • Representative • Democracy • JUDICIAL BRANCH • Judges were appointed • by King • Trial by Jury

  4. The economy & Tensions • At first policy of salutary neglect: govern yourselves • This changed with Mercantilism: EXPORT > IMPORT George III • Land disputes between the English colonists and the French came to the French and Indian War of 1754- 1763. • The English won and gained new territory but went into debt and felt the colonists should pay for it but the colonists felt protection was just part of the deal.

  5. FRENCH & INDIAN WAR MAPS BEFORE AFTER

  6. CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Navigation Acts (1660) Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765) Quartering Act (1765) Townshend Acts (1767) Writs of Assistance Proclamation Act (1767) Boston Massacre (1770) Tea Act (1773) Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1774) Battles of Lexington & Concord (Massachusetts) COLONIALOPPOSITION Albany Plan of Union (1754) Sons of Liberty – Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress Committees of Correspondence Boston Tea Party Thomas Paine – Common Sense COLONIAL SOLUTUIONS 1st Continental Congress – drafted letter to King and Parliament demanding rights be restored. 2nd Continental Congress – DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE REVOLUTIONARY PERIODPeriod in the Americas betweenthe late 1750’s and the mid 1770’s.This period led to the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War.

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