1. Aim: How did the colonial experience under Great Britain lead to war for independence?
Geography essays due today. Leave on corner of desk. I will be around to pick up. Do Now: Answer the following in your Notebooks. (Hint: Global History Age of Exploration Economic System?) What kind of Economic System was Operating in British North America?

2. British Mercantilism
Economic policy used by the British in which the American Colonies served as a source of raw materials and a market to sell goods.
Raw materials from colonies  England makes goods  sells goods 2 colonies for Profit

3. Why? Results? Salutary Neglect
Period of time ( ) when the British were lenient with the colonies
Why?
British leave colonies alone because they are making them $$ (profits)
Results?
Leads to the development of independent colonial trade practices as well as a self sufficient government.
Colonies begin to trade on their own and govern themselves.

4. The Policy of Salutary Neglect
“… I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us…”
In Edmund Burke's 1775 "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies," the term "salutary neglect" was first used.

5. New England Colonies Why they came? Economy? Massachusetts Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Why they came?
Came so they could practice their religion (mostly Puritans)
Came to make money
Mostly farmers and fishermen
Economy?
Made furniture, especially chairs
Made ships
Fished
Farmed - Grew corn and wheat
Bad soil for crops
Short growing season for crops

6. Middle Colonies Why they came? Economy? Delaware Pennsylvania New York
New Jersey
Why they came?
Came to escape European Wars
Many Religions (free practice)
Farming
Lumber
Economy?
Grew apples, wheat, corn, tobacco.
Produced Lumber for Ship Building
Ship Building
Textiles & Iron (Pennsylvania)

7. Southern Colonies Why they came? Economy? Maryland Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Why they came?
Came to make money
Mostly farmers
Agrarian – Farmer/Farming
Economy?
Mainly grew tobacco, rice grapes, and indigo
Most growing was done on plantations
Great soil for crops
Long growing season for crops

8. Colonial Self Government
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Virginia House of Burgesses
Town Hall Meetings
Early colonial efforts in self-government All contributed to the development of representative democracy.

10. Classwork:
Fill out the graphic organizer about the similarities and differences between the 13 British colonies
Homework:
Write at least one paragraph explaining how the colonial experience under Great Britain led to a war for independence. This will be collected for homework.