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Life in the Colonies. Proprietary Colonies, Royal Colonies, Charter Colonies Proprietary Colonies- Reason for British colonization: gift from monarch.

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1 Life in the Colonies

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4 Proprietary Colonies, Royal Colonies, Charter Colonies Proprietary Colonies- Reason for British colonization: gift from monarch (to pay back) to GB citizens; purpose = to pay off debt (Were given full rights to govern) (Almost run like a business) Royal Colonies- Complete control by the English crown Charter Colonies- King granted a charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed

5 Colonists rights to rule themselves Salutary Neglect – The unofficial British policy of lenient or lax enforcement of parliamentary laws regarding the American colonies during the seventeenth (1600s) and eighteenth (1700s) centuries. Voting Rights in the Colonies – Only men over the age of 18 who owned a significant amount of property could vote in colonial elections, much of the population was left out.

6 Bacon’s Rebellion

7 Was a revolt in 1674 which occurred in the colony of Virginia and it was the first revolt in the American colonies and consisted of frontiersmen who protested against the governor’s treatment and assistance with Native American raids and attacks ; the farmers did not win.

8 King Phillip’s War Was a war between the Native Americans that occupied the southern parts of New England and the colonists and their Native American allies between 1675 and 1676, purpose was to establish English control over the Indians in New England

9 Anne Hutchinson Puritan spiritual advisor and mother of 15, her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area. Her popularity and charisma helped create a theological split that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters.

10 Triangular Trade

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