Unit 1 –– US History

Dr. Cacace US History H, Unit 1

Mercantilism

Idea that wealth is fixed and controlled by precious metals

Agricultural Revolution

Agricultural advancements––left many without work, leading to lower class troubles

Puritans

• Wanted to get back to the core of Christianity

• Believed in predestination

• More egalitarian —> translates better to capitalism

• Massachusetts town meetings

Salutary neglect

British letting colonies control their own affairs

House of Burgesses (1619)

Democratic legislative body in Jamestown

The Enlightenment

• Brought about ideas of autonomy and questioned political/religious authority

• Ben Franklins “Project for Moral Perfection”

• First Great Awakening

Project for Moral Perfection

• Written by Ben Franklin

• Encouraged scientific thinking, autonomy for personal decisions

• Affects the upper/educated class

The First Great Awakening

• Brought about new paradigms for religion (religious fervor)

• People can talk to God directly, with no need for an institutional medium

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

• War between English and French and their Native allies

• Brought about severe debt

  • Led to increased taxation (Sugar, Stamp, Tea)

  • Led to Proclamation of 1763

Proclamation of 1763

English not allowed to live west of Appalachian Mtns. to avoid further conflict with French

Writs of Assistance

British can search homes without warrants