1. Exchanges Between Great Britain and Colonial America APUSH 2.2 (I)

2. Impacts of These Exchanges  Over time the British Colonies experienced Anglicization  Process where the British Colonies began to become more like Britain in many ways:  Culturally  Economically  Religiously  Judicially  Politically

3. Impacts of These Exchanges  Several factors promoted Anglicization in the British colonies:  the growth of autonomous political communities based on English models  House of Burgesses (1619)  The Mayflower Compact (1620)  the development of commercial ties and legal structures  the emergence of a trans-Atlantic print culture  Protestant evangelism  religious toleration  the spread of European Enlightenment ideas.

5. British Mercantilism (1650-1776)  Britain desired to incorporate its North American Colonies into a coherent, hierarchical, and imperial structure to create wealth for the mother country.  The purpose of the American colonies was to supply raw materials and serve as a market for the finished goods that had been made in England.

7. Issues in Enforcing Mercantilist Policies  Navigation Acts (1650)  Leads to smuggling  Dominion of New England (1686-1689)  British attempt at unifying the New England Colonies, New York, and New Jersey  Easier to control and defend  Problem?  Terminated local assemblies  Taxation of colonists without consulting their representatives  Ending smuggling through strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts  With the removal of James II during the Glorious Revolution, the British adopted the policy of salutary neglect

8. Rejection of Imperial Control  Why?  Local Experiments with self-government  Ideas of what liberty is  Political thought of the Enlightenment  Genuine belief that the imperial system of control was corrupt

9. What impacted the Colonists the relationship with Britain?  The Enlightenment (1620s-1780s)  An new movement in thought the promoted the idea of human reason.  Question traditional forms of authority  Redefined natural law and applied it to humanity  Less God, more what is the natural state of humanity  Notable Figures:  Voltaire  John Locke  Francis Bacon  Immanuel Kant  John Locke

11. What impacted the Colonists the relationship with Britain?  The Great Awakening (1730-1760)  Promoted the idea of pietism  An emotional, evangelical religious ideology that emphasized the individual Christian's pious devotion to God  Old Light vs. New Light  Traditional religion vs. New Age religion  Why?  Ministers were concerned that the rapidly expanding country was becoming too obsessed with economic prosperity and the Enlightenment rationalism was cooling religious zeal  Notable Figures  Jonathan Edwards  George Whitfield  Broke down sectional boundaries in the colonies and acted as a unifying force