Chapter 4: The Imperial Perspective
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- English colonial empire
- Compared to Spanish and French
- Administration of colonies
- Mercantile system
- Navigation Act of 1651
- Under the Restoration
- Enumerated goods
- Role of colonies
- Other navigation acts
- Enforcement of acts
- Dominion of New England
- Royal government
- Sir Edmund Andros
- Opposition
- The Glorious Revolution in America
- Dominion of New England ends
- Leisler’s Rebellion in New York
- John Locke’s contract theory of government
- Emergence of coherent system under William and Mary
- Period of “salutary neglect”
- Governments in the colonies
- Lack of a coherent plan
- Role of the governor
- Method of selection in different colonies
- Veto power
- Control over convening the assembly
- Selection of council members
- Role in court proceedings
- Other authority
- Role of the assemblies
- Conflict with governors
- Restrictions in various colonies on right to vote for assembly
- Two key powers: to approve taxes and to initiate legislation
- Efforts to use assembly powers to gain control over governors
- Other empires in America
- Decline of Spanish control in North America
- Ways Spanish control failed
- Reasons for Spanish failure
- French settlements in North America
- Effects of small French population in North America
- Beginnings of settlement, Quebec, 1608
- Exploration and settlement to the south: Louisiana and Mississippi
- French and English settlements compared
- Early conflicts between the French and English
- The wars for empire between France and England
- Causes of the wars
- French and Indian War
- First conflicts
- Virginians into Ohio River Valley
- George Washington and Fort Necessity
- Albany Congress, 1754
- Called by Board of Trade
- Plan of Union rejected
- Continued conflict
- French victory in backwoods
- World war
- William Pitt’s strategy
- Battle of Quebec
- Results of war
- Peace of Paris
- France ousted from North America
- British take Florida
- Spain re c e ives New Orleans and land west of Mississippi River
- Pontiac’s Rebellion
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