Notes

church of england - too much like catholic church

purify - strip away fancy rituals

The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.

British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances.

The Navigation Acts inflamed the hostilities of American colonists and proved a significant contributing event leading up to the revolution.

The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science.

The British colonist Benjamin Franklin gained fame on both sides of the Atlantic as a printer, publisher, and scientist. He embodied Enlightenment ideals in the British Atlantic with his scientific experiments and philanthropic endeavors.

Enlightenment principles guided the founding of the colony of Georgia, but those principles failed to stand up to the realities of colonial life.

The Great Awakening was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century.

The beliefs of the New Lights of the First Great Awakening competed with the more conservative religion of the first colonists, who were known as Old Lights.

The religious fervor in Great Britain and her North American colonies bound the eighteenth-century British Atlantic together in a shared, common experience.

The development of the Atlantic economy in the eighteenth centuries allowed American colonists access to more British goods than ever before.

The buying habits of both commoners and the rising colonial gentry fueled the consumer revolution, creating even stronger ties with Great Britain by means of a shared community of taste and ideas.

1607 - English found James Town
1624 - Dutch found new Amsterdam
1636 - Europeans settle in Delware
1664 - English take control of New Amsterdam and renames it New York, East and West New Jersey founded
1681 - William Penn founds Pennsylvania