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Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments.

3.2 American Colonies & England. How did English ideas about government and the economy influence life in the 13 colonies?. Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments. Analyze the economic relationship between England and its colonies.

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Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments.

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  1. 3.2 American Colonies & England How did English ideas about government and the economy influence life in the 13 colonies? • Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments. • Analyze the economic relationship between England and its colonies. • Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies.

  2. The English had a long governmental tradition. Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments. In 1215, English nobles made King John accept a limitation to his taxation and guaranteed the right to a trial. A two-house legislature composed of the House of Lords, an inherited position, and the House of Commons, elected by men with property. The English overthrew King James and installed William and Mary, who granted the English Bill of Rights.

  3. Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments. • Colonists were English subjects and self-ruling. The colonists believed that the English Bill of Rights applied to them, even though they lived in the colonies. • At the same time, the colonies enjoyed a long period of self-government and individual liberties.

  4. Analyze the economic relationship between England and its colonies. The English Parliament passed trade laws called the Navigation Acts. The laws successfully regulated colonial trade to create great wealth and power for England in the 1600s.

  5. English mercantilism meant the colonies exported raw materials only to England. Analyze the economic relationship between England and its colonies. In exchange, the colonies bought manufactured goods from England. The cloth for this dress was produced in England

  6. The new ideas of the Enlightenment in the 1600s and 1700s influenced Americans. Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies. • Exposed colonists to new ways of thinking such as scientific reasoning and applying natural laws to government. • People believed that human reason could solve issues. • Colonial leader Benjamin Franklin was greatlyinspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment.

  7. In the colonies, the development of democracy was influenced by: Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies. • the English parliamentary tradition. • the colonies having a long period of self-rule. • the new ideas of the European Enlightenment. • the Judeo-Christian religious influence on colonial people.

  8. Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies. • Many colonists had immigrated for religious reasons. • Churches played a social role in colonial life. • Churches served as public places for reading government proclamations, holding elections, and posting new laws.

  9. George Whitefield was a popular preacher in the colonies whohelped launch a new religious movement called the Great Awakening. Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies. • Preachers traveled through the colonies and preached powerful, emotion-packed sermons. • Many people left their old established churches, joined the movement, and started new churches.

  10. Participants in the Great Awakening came to realize that if they can select their own religion, they can also select their own government. Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies. The Great Awakening gave rise to a changed political awareness.

  11. How did English ideas about government and the economy influence life in the 13 colonies? The relationship between England and the American colonies was economically and culturally close. But in the 1700s, the distant colonies started to form their own ideas about their government and economy. Explore how English traditions influenced the development of colonial governments. Analyze the economic relationship between England and its colonies. Describe the influence of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the 13 colonies.

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