3.+Colonial+North+America,+1690-1754


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 * Key Concept 3.1: **British attempts to assert tighter control over its North American colonies and the colonial resolve to pursue self-government led to a colonial independence movement and the Revolutionary War.

For more resources, see

 * **Grade 5.11 for material on maritime commerce in Massachusetts and other colonies.**
 * **See Grade 5.12 for material on the growth of Slavery in Colonial North America.**
 * **Grade 5.15 for information on the French and Indian War and colonial responses to British imperial policies**
 * **Grade 5.14 for information on colonial governments**


 * For an overview, see [|English, French and Spanish Colonies: A Comparison] (1585 -1763)**

//**Transatlantic Trade and the Growth of Seaports**//
For more on growth of trade and seaports in colonial New England, see Massachusetts Grade 5.11


 * Triangular Trade**
 * The trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the West Indies and the North American colonies. Raw and natural resources such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton were shipped to Europe where they were made into manufactured goods. These goods were then sent to Africa to be traded for Slaves. Slaves were then shipped to the West Indies and the North American colonies, where the trade would begin again.
 * [[image:map_icon.jpeg width="58" height="37"]][[image:Multimedia.png link="@http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g5s_u3/index.html"]]View an interactive map of the Triangular Trade


 * Mercantilism**
 * Click here for a [|definition of the term] See also, [|What Was Mercantilism?] from The Economist.
 * [|Notes on Mercantilism] from Professor Vincent Ferraro, Mt. Holyoke College.


 * Admiralty Courts**

In English history, a series of laws designed to restrict England’s carrying trade to English ships, effective chiefly in the 17th and 18th centuries. The measures, originally framed to encourage the development of English shipping so that adequate auxiliary vessels would be available in wartime, became a form of trade protectionism during an era of mercantilism.
 * Navigation Acts of 1650, 1660, 1663, and 1696**

View excerpts from the original Navigation Acts Documents

[|Mr. Tashtego: Native American Whalemen in Antebellum New England], Nancy Shoemaker, Journal of the Early Republic, Spring 2013. Contrary of stereotypes, such as Melville's Tashtego in Moby Dick, Native American men found income and status in the whaling industry that was otherwise inaccessible to men of color in antebellum New England.

[|Pirate Treasure May Lie in Waters Off Cape Cod] is an NPR podcast about efforts to explore the wreck of the [|Whydah pirate ship] which sank in 1717. The Whydah had lotted 54 other ships before sinking in a storm. The ship became as a part of the Slave Trade before it became a pirate ship. For more, go to the [|Whydah Pirate Musuem], located in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
 * Pirates in Colonial North America**

For more on pirates in colonial North America, see [|The Life and Death of Blackbeard the Pirate] from North Carolina Digital History.
 * [|When Blackbeard Scourged the Seas] from Colonial Williamsburg.

For more general background, see [|Piracy in the Caribbean] (includes links on women pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read).

For more on women pirates, see [|If There's A Man Among Ye: The Tale of Pirate Queens Anne Bonny and Mary Read] from Smithsonian.com

//**Growth of Plantation Economies and Slave Societies**//
[|Click here for a PowerPoint presentation on the economies of the colonies]from Point Loma High School, San Diego, California.

//**The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening**//
See Massachusetts World History I.35 for material on the Enlightenment and the concept of democratic government.

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