the colonial era government, religion, and culture in the colonies
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
THE COLONIAL ERA
Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies
![Page 2: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
English Colonial Rule
Magna Carta- 1215 document that English king signed that gave people protection against unjust treatment or punishment
English Bill of Rights – guaranteed basic rights to all citizens
The colonist were beginning to seethemselves as something other than Englishmen
![Page 3: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
England saw America as an economic resource
Mercantilism – an economic theory that says the more gold and money a country has, the more power it has
Navigation Acts – made sure that only England would benefit from the colonies
![Page 4: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Colonial Trade
Colonial trade Transatlantic Trade – the routes traders crossed from
Europe to America to Africa and back Traded sugar, molasses, rum, and slaves Middle Passage – the part of the journey that shipped
slaves to the west
![Page 5: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Colonial Government
Colonies believed that the gov’t should not be all powerful – representative gov’t, limited gov’t
Voting – white men who owned property ONLY
![Page 6: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
An Emerging American Culture
Family Roles Family was the foundation of society Mothers and fathers cared for their children Women worked very hard Men were the heads of the household
![Page 7: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Education – Colonial Era
Children were taught to read and write at home
School systems were set up by PuritansEarly colleges were to train
ministers(PREACHERS) – Harvard University first in 1636
![Page 8: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The Enlightenment
A movement that began in Europe that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society Galileo Isaac Newton Benjamin Franklin
![Page 9: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
British and French Rivalry in the New World
Conflict in the Ohio River ValleyGeorge Washington!!Before 1763 – colonies grew and were left
alone by the British “SALUTARY NEGLECT”
![Page 10: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
The French and Indian War
part of a long struggle for territory and power between the British and the French
War was declared throughout the worldIndians fought on the side of the FrenchWashington became a hero French & Indian VS British & Colonist
![Page 11: THE COLONIAL ERA Government, Religion, and Culture in the Colonies](https://reader035.vdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022062519/5697bfaf1a28abf838c9cfee/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Trouble on the Frontier
Proclamation of 1763 – to help stop the fighting between the Indians and the colonists, King George III declared that the Appalachian mountains were the boundary line for the colonists