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Chapter 3: Empires

Chapter Outline

England's Restoration Colonies
1. The Restoration (1660)
  1. Oliver Cromwell (r. 1649–59)
  2. Richard Cromwell (r. 1659–60)
  3. Charles II (r. 1660–85)
2. Carolina (1663)
  1. Proprietary grant
  2. Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
  3. Rice culture and slavery
  4. North Carolina (Albemarle Sound) (1691)
  5. Formal division into North and South Carolina (1729)
3. New York and New Jersey (1664)
  1. James, Duke of York, and English Conquest of New Netherland (1664)
  2. Fall of New Sweden
  3. John, Lord Berkeley, 's West New Jersey
  4. Sir George Carteret's East New Jersey
4. Pennsylvania (1681)
  1. Society of Friends (Quakers)
  2. William Penn
  3. Mason-Dixon line
  4. Government
    1. proprietary grant
    2. Frame of Government (1682)
      1. elected council and assembly
      2. freedom of religion
War and Rebellion
1. King Philip's War (1675)
  1. Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians
  2. Metacom, or King Philip
Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
1. Governor William Berkeley of Virginia
2. Greenspring faction
3. Nathaniel Bacon
  1. Declaration of the People
  2. Bacon's Rebellion and its suppression
Trade and Empire
1. The Navigation Acts
  1. Navigation Act of 1651
  2. Navigation Act of 1660 (imports from colonies into England)
    1. enumerated goods
    2. duties
  3. Staples Act of 1663 (exports from England to colonies)
  4. Plantation Duty Act of 1663
    1. customs agents in colonies
    2. Board of Customs Commissioners
2. Enforcement
  1. Lords of Trade (1674–96)
  2. Board of Trade (1696)
  3. Navigation Act of 1696
    1. admiralty courts in colonies
    2. denial of trial by jury
  4. Wool Act of 1699
  5. Hat Act of 1732
  6. Iron Act of 1750
  7. Molasses Act of 1733
3. Impact
  1. Chesapeake colonies
  2. New England
  3. Royal bureaucracy
The Glorious Revolution
1. Royal Consolidation
  1. End of proprietary grants and colonial charters (1683)
  2. Revocation of Massachusetts Bay's charter (1684)
  3. Accession of King James II (1685)
  4. Dominion of New England (1685)
    1. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island,
    2. Connecticut
    3. Governor Sir Edmund Andros
2. Parliamentary Declaration of Rights (1689)
3. Accession of William and Mary
4. Glorious Revolution in the Colonies
  1. Massachusetts
  2. New York: Leisler's Rebellion
  3. Maryland
5. Revolutionary Settlement
  1. "The purse and the sword"
  2. Triennial Act
  3. British constitution
  4. Colonial government
    1. six royal colonies, three charter colonies, and three proprietary colonies (1730)
    2. legislative government
Imperial Rivals
1. New France
  1. Iroquois Five Nations: Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas,
  2. Mohawks
  3. Beaver Wars against the Hurons
  4. King Louis XIV
  5. Jean-Baptiste Colbert
  6. Government
    1. governor-general
    2. intendant
    3. no elected assembly
  7. Habitants
  8. Expansion
    1. Great Lakes: Fort Frontenac, Niagara, Michilimackinac
    2. Louisiana
      1. Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette: Arkansas River
      2. La Salle: mouth of the Mississippi River (1682)
      3. New Orleans (1722)
2. The Iroquois
  1. Great League of Peace
  2. Grand Council
  3. Iroquois Confederation
  4. King William's War/War of the League of Augsburg (1689–97)
3. New Spain
  1. Pueblos, Navajos, and Apaches
  2. Popé's Rebellion (1680)
Salem Witchcraft
1. Salem Town vs. Salem Village
  1. Cotton and Increase Mather
  2. Spectral evidence
2. Rise of Modern Science
  1. Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687)
  2. Religious skepticism

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