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The Evolution of the British Empire

The Evolution of the British Empire __The Drive for Reorganization__ __The Dominion of New England__ __The “Glorious Revolution”__
 * Mercantilism: the English settlers thought a reorganization of the imperial government could benefit everybody economically
 * It wasn’t entirely possible because England wasn’t interested in importing certain things from the Americas because England was already producing, and so come trading occurred between English and non English colonies
 * The Navigation Acts: the English government, in order to establish a more mercantile system, enforced trade rules. One: the colonies couldn’t trade with anyone other than English ships, Two: all goods being shipped to America had to go through England so they could tax it, Three: all ships (so to avoid cheating) had to basically, sail to “check points”.
 * The settlers liked this because: it encouraged them to make a strong shipping business, and because they wanted to import English colony made goods as much as possible.
 * Sir Edmund Andros: James II established a single dominion over all of New England and NY, + NJ to eliminate their feelings of “separation”. Andros supervised everything from Boston. He was hated
 * James II was losing support in England through trying to take control of Parliament and the courts and electing Catholics into office
 * End of the Dominion: Mary and Orange came into England to take the throne form a catholic James, and remembering what happened to his father he fled. There was no bloodshed, and so it was called the “glorious revolution”. When the people of Boston heard about this they were quick to boot Andros. They then re established colonial government
 * Even in this victory, things were not right. They made MA and Plymouth into a royal colony, gave the crown the right to appoint governor and replaced Church membership with property ownership as a right to vote, and required the Puritans to accept Anglican worship
 * John Coode’s Rebellion: in Maryland, when people heard about the revolution they assumed their lord Baltimore had sided with James, and so Coode started a revolt that drove out Baltimore’s people and established asked to become a royal colony. Under their new rule, Catholics were heavily discriminated
 * Results of the Glorious Revolution: colonies get their government back, they adopted the idea that the colonists had rights too, and the English government needed to listen to their views when making decisions about them.