1. Free Write
In a half page answer the following question:
What kind of a parent do you think you would be (if you have children?) Controlling, a push-over, strict, baby them? Explain.

2. “We have an old mother that peevish is grown; She snubs us like children that scarce walk alone; She forgets we’re grown up and have a sense of our own.” “This is the mother country, they are the children; they must obey, and we prescribe.”

3. Tensions with Mom

4. More colonies  13 total Middle Colonies: Southern Colonies:
New York: Dutch, diverse, trade
Pennsylvania: Quakers, religious and political freedom
Southern Colonies:
Tobacco and Sugar
Need for slaves

5. Mercantilism More gold = more power Colonies sell raw goods to England
Colonies can only sell to mother country: can’t make own goods

6. England and its colonies
England loved its colonies
Colonies trade with England and buy English goods (Triangular Trade)
Win-win situation for England
Colonists try to smuggle goodsNavigation Acts: Only sell to England or be taxed

7. Salutary Neglect Colonies allowed to govern selves for a long time
House of Burgesses (Jamestown)
Mayflower Compact (Pilgrims)
Colonial Legislatures
Why?
British lacked resources to enforce any laws
Already serving their needs financially
Most colonies proud to be British
English Civil War: Too preoccupied

8. Rebellious Thoughts Enlightenment: Great Awakening:
Locke, Rousseau, Montesuieu
Natural laws, people consent to be governed, 3 branches
Great Awakening:
Indirectly attacking authority figure

9. French and Indian War
War to decide who would be stronger in America: France or English
Fighting over land
England has to borrow $ and raise taxes
7 years later, British win.
Strains relations with the colonists:
Colonists don’t appreciate British protection
British don’t respect colonists

10. What is an American?