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1. Quakers- Quakers condemned extravagance. They were prosecuted in England because they refused to serve in the military or pay taxes. Quakers tried to rectory Christianity. Buy they did not support the Puritans Calvinist doctrines. 2. Navigational Act- In 1560 the English government tried to keep the colonists trade in the English hands, along with manufacturing and foreign trade. By keeping control of the trade it increased their economic benefits. They wanted agricultural goods and raw materials to be carried to English ports in English vessel. In 1651 The English required the goods to be carried on ships owned by English or Colonial merchants. 3. Dominion of New England- In 1686 Connecticut and Rhode Island and merged them with Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth to form the royal province the Dominion of New England. 2 years later New York and New Jersey were added to the colony. Which then created a huge colony that went from Maine to Pennsylvania. Soon King James was overthrow which allowed Massachusetts and New York to …show more content…

Constitutional Monarchy- The Glorious Revolution of 1688- 1989 Began a new era of politics between England and its American colonies. In England the Queen and King ruled it as a constitutional monarchs, they promoted and empire based on commerce. Also it was a monarchy that was limited in its rue by a constitution. 5. South Atlantic System- The South Atlantic System produced sugar, Tabaco, rice, other tropical and subtropical products for markets. These plantations were ruled by European planter merchants that were worked by enslaved Africans. 6. Middle Passage- After the first passage of slavery the next passage is middle passage. Middle passage is when the new slave coming to the new world would be on highly crowded ships. They had little to drink or eat. Some died from dehydration. The bad smells caused in outbreak in dysentery which took lives. Some slaves jumped overboard then suffering. Others staged violent shipboard

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During the 17th and 18th centuries, the British government was in control of the North American colonies. The prime reason for the British government to control the English colonies was so Britain could trade with the colonies. The English colonies had crops like sugar and tobacco that couldn’t be grown in England so the British relied on the colonies to ship these products to them. The colonies were able to use the British ships in trade for the colonies’ crops. With the policy of mercantilism developing in the 17th century, Britain said they could help the English colonies become a strong country by trading, even though the trading mostly helped the British.

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First of all, Englishmen migrations to Massachusetts and to Virginia were supported by the two different companies, Massachusetts Bay Company and London Company, except the migration of those people on the Mayflower to Plymouth in 1607 that was supported by London Company. Since England would like to explore the New World to find out more ways to become wealthier and plundered treasures as Spain and Portugal, the King granted permission of establishing a colony on the coast of North America of 100 miles square between the 31th parallel and the 41th parallel to London Company in 1606. (hist of vir3) London Company then firstly sent out 120 members to Virginia in December 1606. (hist of vir53)

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Beginning in the 1760s England attempted to implement greater control in her North American colonies. This started when England won the French in the 9 years war and in turn received many new territories. After this war, England was left with tremendous amounts of debt and had to figure out how they would get rid of that debt. So as a resolution they figured that they would tax the colonists to act as an aid for all the debt. In the 1760's , the British started to issue many different acts and rulings that the colonists did not find pleasant.

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While New England wasn’t an English colony in the beginning, they still needed to import goods and export raw materials back to the Virginia Company. Massachusetts Bay colonials exported beaver furs used for hat making, timber for shipbuilding, and cured fish. The forests in and around New England had never been logged and the streams and river systems were still packed with beaver. At first contact Cape Cod was the world's finest fishing grounds. This allowed for a rich fishing industry that helped the Massachusetts Bay colony create commerce.

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All their freedom they previously had was being reduced. They had to pay several taxes on things such as stamps and sugar. The Navigation Act forced the colonies to only trade with England, which prevented the smuggling. Many of the colonies became bitter about the price and in some cases England would lower the taxes. The colonies often threw a fit and revolted.

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