Enumerated Goods: Relationship Between Britain And The Colonies

KEY TERMS:

Enumerated goods- Goods from the colonies such as cotton, sugar and tobacco. Could only be shipped to England or other English colonies.

Age of Enlightenment- Era from 1620 to 1780 where people stressed reason and analytics instead of following the traditional guidelines.

Halfway Covenant- In 1662 church partial church membership acquired established in New England.

Great Awakening-Different periods of religious revivals during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Religious revival held in the 1730’s and 1740’s.

"New Lights"- New thinking members of the churchmen, which believed the Great Awakening strongly, and its beliefs.

Dominion of New England-Administrative union of English colonies in the New England area.

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• England’s highest goods in its competition with other European nations were a different economy and a sophisticated financial system that put trade at the service of the state. Parliament created a series of laws with the name of the Navigation Acts, to hold Britain and the colonies into a big and living, and trading empire. Colonial had raw materials brought into Britain while British manufactured goods were made to everyone on there liking terms to colonial buyers.

• England obtained a policy called mercantilism, which is where the government is involved in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth. The main goal was to obtain a reasonable balance of trade within the empire as a whole, with exports outside of imports. Colonies played a big role because they supplied the needs that British consumers would have to buy from foreign competitors.

In what ways did colonial culture change in the eighteenth century?

• Colonial best was worried about their small-town status, imported goods and cultured and refined manners to become more like Britain. Some of them educated settlers took great interest in Enlightenment ideas about science and human progress. At the same time, biblical religion got bigger on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean because of the revivals of the Great

Some colonial gentleman even changed their religious beliefs to reflect European ideas that God only played an indirect affair with humans. Educated colonists were especially interested in the new ideas that showed the Age of Enlightenment what it really was.

How did the Glorious Revolution affect colonial politics?

• The dethroning of King James in England and at the end of the Dominion of New England showed all of the success of the representative government over dictatorship. Colonists came to see their legislatures as colonial alternatives of parliament on its own. 
They also showed how they understood their membership in the empire to be voluntary or on their own, not forced.

• The political legacy of the Great Awakening-particularly the emphasis on individual choice and resistance to authority-corresponded to the developments in the colonial political world. For the most of the seventeenth century, ties within the empire developed from trade rather than governance. But as America grew in wealth and size, the king and parliament sought out to manage colonial affairs more directly.

In what ways did British, Spanish, and French expansion affect colonial