1. The American Colonies

2. America’s 1 st 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 BEFOREAFTER

6. ColoniesMotivationsEconomy New England Colonies Massachusetts New Hampshire Connecticut Rhode Island Mainly religious dissenters – Puritans did not believe in toleration Small scale farming; small business & shipbuilding Middle Colonies New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Mainly religious dissenters – Quakers (Penn) Farming – wheat & other cash crops; industry – mines, etc… Southern Colonies MarylandVirginia NC, SC Georgia Economic Reasons – indentured servants & slavery Agriculture – large scale plantation farming

7. REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD Period in the Americas between the late 1750’s and the mid 1770’s. This period led to the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. 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) COLONIAL OPPOSITION 1.Albany Plan of Union (1754) 2.Sons of Liberty – Stamp Act 3.Stamp Act Congress 4.Committees of Correspondence 5.Boston Tea Party 6.Thomas Paine – Common Sense COLONIAL SOLUTUIONS 1 st Continental Congress – drafted letter to King and Parliament demanding rights be restored. 2 nd Continental Congress – DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE