1. Prelude to Revolutions Daniel May

3. To govern the royal colonist, James appointed Military men good with orders.

4. James regarded the American colonies as cash cows meant to find a more authoritarian crown

5. Previously the crown had claimed a tenth of treasures recovered James demanded a full half.

6. He sold the seats on the colonial council to anyone willing to pay

7. Customs duty levied on sugar was too high, James doubled that duty and even increased the duties levied on Chesapeake tobacco

8. Dominion The new king took a Particular interest in reducing New England to Obedience. 1678 Massachusetts Legislature announced The laws of England are bound within the fower seas, and does not reach America 1684 Court decision revoked the Massachusetts Charter James Consolidated the eight Northern colonies know as the Dominion of New England The King appointed Sir Edmond Anros, a military officer for Governor-general Andros replaced Puritan judges and officers with Anglican newcomers and also appointed the country sheriffs, who named the jurors

9. Glorious Revolutions Anglican Bishops and aristocrats secretly wrote William, Dutch Prince of Orange to come to England wit an army to intervene on behalf the Protestant cause James's nephew and son-in-law William saw am opportunity to seize the crown for himself He was a protestant alternative for the English throne, also needing desperately to wean England from its pro-French policies William invaded as a preemptive strike, landed without resistance, rallying to the stronger side most English officers and aristocrats defected to join William James panicked and fled to France for sanctuary at the court of Louis XIV

10. Chapter 14 - The Atlantic The annual transatlantic crossings tripled from about five hundred in the1670s to fifteen hundred by the late 1730s The swelling volume of shipping also led to more complex trading patterns which fed an impressive growth in the colonial economy England's rulers encouraged emigration to the colonies, where laborers could raise staple commodities for the mother country and dissidents could be exiled from political influence Emigration seemed an economic loss to the mother country so in 1740 Parliament passed the Plantation Act which allows foreign-born colonists to win British citizenship

12. The empire developed a multilateral trading system that used bills of exchange drawn on London merchant firms

14. In the mother country, American and Asian produce became widespread at lower prices

15. Imports from India increased a hundredfold

16. Colonists experienced the empire as consumers of larger quantities of Asia and British goods

18. The evangelical Revivalists Undermined the traditional convictions that society must be stratified and corporate.

19. For the first time evangelical revivals also brought Protestant conversion to thousands of Indians and enslaved Africans

20. The Poor and the Marginal found a divine License for their own Preachers

21. Establishments Myth Insists English colonists fled religious persecution into a land of religious freedom Many colonists sought to replicate the official Anglican faith in the colonies. Colonies' founders required the colonists to attend and pay taxes for, one “established” church The new English towns enforced a Sabbath that restricted activity to the home and church, Imposing arrests and fines on people who did not fallow Beyond New England establishments were far weaker because official ministers were so few.

22. Chapter 18 Imperial Wars and Crisis The British Empire fought for Predominance in Europe and for mastery of the colonies and control over the shipping, Atlantic and Indian oceans Success threatened the Indian Peoples of the Interior The victory of the British introduced a dangerous new stage in the colonization of north America that challenged colonial allegiance to the British empire. 1760S Parliament and the crown worked to strengthen imperial management of an enlarged domain that threatened to spin beyond control