The Restoration Colonies

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The Restoration Colonies
Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua,
NY Modified by Mrs. Christy WYHS Whitehall, OH
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British economic moves

• Navigation Acts
• Unified Kingdom
• West Indian sugar
• African slaves

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King Charles II

• Proprietorship- land given to an aristocrat by
  the Crown
• Goal was manorial system (feudalism)
• Carolinas
• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• New York

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New Netherlands Becomes a British Royal Colony

• Charles II granted New Netherlands land to his
  brother, the Duke of York, before he controlled
  the area!
• Renamed New York
• England gained strategic harbor between her
  northern southern colonies.
• England now controlled the Atlantic coast!

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Pennsylvania
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The Quakers

• Called Quakers because they quaked during
  intense religious practices.
• Bought didnt simply take land from Indians.
• Quakers went among the Indians unarmed.
• BUT.. non-Quaker Europeans flooded PA
• Treated native peoples poorly.
• This undermined the actions of the Quakers!

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William Penn

• Aristocratic Englishman.
• Embraced Quakerismafter military service.
• 1681 ? he received agrant from king toestablish
  a colony.
• This settled a debt the king owed his father.
• Named Pennsylvania Penns Woodland.

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Royal Land Grant to Penn
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Penns Treaty with theNative Americans
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Pennsylvanian Society

• Attracted many different people
• Religious misfits from other colonies.
• Many different ethnic groups.
• No provision for military defense.
• No restrictions on immigration.
• No slavery!!
• Blue Laws sumptuary laws ? against stage
  plays, cards, dice, excessive hilarity, etc.

A society that gave its citizens economic
opportunity, civil liberty, religious freedom!!
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Philadelphia Boston Compared
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Urban Population Growth1650 - 1775
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The Carolinas
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The West Indies ? Way Station to Mainland America

• 1670 ? a group of small English farmers from the
  West Indies arrived in Carolina.
• Names for King Charles II.
• The King granted Carolina to 8 supporters Lord
  Proprietors.

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Back to EnglandMercantilism

• Theory- colonies produce agricultural good raw
  materials then English merchants would carry them
  to England
• Some good would be traded
• Others would be manufactured then exported
• Good from America had to pass through England

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James II

• Divine right of Kings
• Navigation Acts
• Dominion of New England
• Mass. Bay, CT, RI, Plymouth
• Glorious Revolution- William Mary

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Northern Maritime Economy

• New England West Indies
• NE would ship wheat, corn, bread
• Bills of exchange

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Effects

• More transatlantic trade
• More British German migrants
• Growing cities
• Growing upper class
• Growing large working class

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Salutary Neglect

• King George I II
• Loophole in the new Navigation Act
• Helped the French West Indies produce low-cost
  sugar outsell Britain in Europe
• Led to the Molasses Act 1733
• currency issues
• Currency Act 1751