English Colonial RuleUS HISTORY ABY: CHERI-LEE STEYN

Policies of Mercantilism

These Policies took many forms:

• Domestically, governments would provide capital to new industries.

• Exempt new industries from guild rules and taxes.

• Establish monopolies over local and colonial markets.

• Grant titles and pensions to successful producers.

• The government assisted local industry by imposing tariffs, quotas, and prohibitions on imports of goods that competed with local manufacturers.

• Governments also prohibited the export of tools and capital equipment and the emigration of skilled labor that would allow foreign countries.

• Governments also prohibited the export of tools and capital equipment and the emigration of skilled labor that would allow foreign countries

Salutary Neglect

• Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to an unofficial and long-term 17th- & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep not American colonies obedient to England.

• Salutary neglect was a large contributing factor that led to the American Revolutionary War.

• To what extent "salutary neglect" constituted an actual neglect of colonial affairs, as the name suggests, versus a conscious policy of the British government, is controversial among historians, and also varies with national perspective.

Colonial reaction to Governor Andros • Andros’s overbearing methods led

colonists to despise him deeply.

• Andros's governance was certainly an imposition on the autonomy colonists once enjoyed.

• The governor tried to force Episcopalian worship on the Old South Meetinghouse in Boston, thus infuriating prominent Puritan ministers like Increase Mather and his son, Cotton Mather.

• Andros also vigorously enforced the Navigation Acts, creating many enemies in port towns like Boston.

• He further exacerbated his reputation by suppressing charters, town meetings, and colonial assemblies.

Dominion Over New England• Administrative Union of English Colonies.

• The political structure represented centralized control more akin to the model used by the Spanish monarchy.

• It was unacceptable to most colonists, they resented being stripped of their traditional rights.

• the Dominion tried to make legal and structural changes, but most of these were undone, and the Dominion was overthrown as soon as word was received that King James had left the throne in England.

• One notable success was the introduction of the Church of England into Massachusetts, whose Puritan leaders had previously refused to allow it any sort of foothold.

long-term influences of these policies on the American colonists. • The colonists vehemently protested against the new measures resulting

from the reversal of Salutary Neglect and the Sons of Liberty was formed.

• The Boston Tea Party affair followed which was as a result and in opposition to the Tea Act.

• The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence was the inevitable conclusion to the laws and taxes imposed by the British on the American colonies - which had been fuelled by their attempt to end their policy of Salutary Neglect.

• All of these are the long term effects of the reverse of Salutary Neglect, and has shaped America today.

• For the strict policies of mercantilism, the coloniasts decided to revolt against the British Crown, one of the reasons that led to the revolution.

Bibliographies:

WEB:

• Econlib.org,. 'Mercantilism: The Concise Encyclopedia Of Economics | Library Of Economics And Liberty'. N.p., 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

• Wikipedia,. 'Salutary Neglect'. N.p., 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

• Wikipedia,. 'Dominion Of New England'. N.p., 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

PICTURE:

• Bririshinamerica. 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

• Dominionseal. 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.

• Andros. 2015. Web. 20 Jan. 2015.