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British Colonialism
Began at Jamestown, VA 1601
Most Colonies foor profit (join-stock) companies, need raw materials and markets.
Indentured Servants did most of the work -
Circumstances In new world
House of Burgesses VA: designed to attract colonists to keep order, onlyproperty owners could vote -
The Rise of Representative Government (origins)
Magna Carta (1215) citizens could question taxes; right to jury trial.
English Bill of rights(1689) Monarch can't suspend parliament, collect taxes w/o permission; protected freedom of speech.
Rule of law everyone must obey laws; we call it Limited government. -
The Great Awakening 1730-1740
Religious revivial movement
Evangelicism- new birth considered the ultimate religious expierence
followers accepted that they were sinners and asked for salvation -
Before the Great Awakening
Great Awakening challenged authority and hierachy of established churches (old lights) leaders: George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards -
A failure becomes a success
born into poverty (1737)
Began to involve with englands society of twelve, which met to discuss town politics -
French and Indian War
Called Seven years war in Europe.
Turf war in N. America between French and Britian
Britian Won
piled taxes on colonists -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Wrote sense to explain why colonists should go to war
Commom-sense style appealed colonists