Week+2+-+Colonial+Economics

toc =Colonial Life: 1700–1763= By the 1750s, the American colonists, feeling more unified by such intellectual currents as the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, had developed a unique culture of their own. Although the individual colonies developed distinctive religious, social, and demographic characteristics, they all shared a basic sense of unity that grew stronger through the coming years of economic and political upheaval. The colonists had effectively governed themselves throughout most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For the most part, the British government had left the colonists to fend for themselves during this **Age of Salutary Neglect,** neither imposing new taxes nor enforcing those on the books. Therefore, the colonists resented Britain’s attempts to exert more influence over the colonies in the mid-1700s.

Objectives

 * Understands how the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas.
 * Understands mercantilism and how it influenced patterns of economic activity (i.e., the advantages and disadvantages of mercantilism for the mother country and its colonies).

Immersion
Week 2 - Colonial Economics Immersion

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References:

“McREL: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, Content Knowledge Standards and Benchmark Database.” 9 Sep 2008 .