Free Write

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: • 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NavigationActs: 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: • 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?