![]() Reason and self-government through books and pamphlets that were read all over the Atlantic world. Another shared culturalĮxperience was the Enlightenment, which spread ideas about So we might put religion down as something that both united and divided the colonies from Great Britain. Preachers throughout the colonies was the English parson George Whitefield. But in the early 1700s bothĮngland and the colonies experienced a shared religious revival with the Great Awakening. So religion in generalĭidn't tie the colonies together with the mother country. The established Church of England was pretty weak in the colonies. Were fairly tolerant of a broad range of religions. America became the destination of choice for religious dissenters since most of the colonies A big area of culturalĮxchange was in religion. Next, let's look at some of the social and cultural exchanges that happened between the colonies andĮngland during this period. So these conflicts were probably both a source of unity and division between the colonists and the British Government. But they also feltįrustrated when they didn't receive enough helpĭefending their settlements or when British regulars For the colonists warfareĪgainst a common enemy strengthened their sense that they belonged to the British Empire. Period there was also a lot of warfare against competing colonial powers in North America, particularly France and Spain, who were supported by What else happened politically? Well, during this time So I would say this tended to divide the colonies from England. Self-rule and self-taxation, and the colonists were irate any time the British colonial governors attempted to interfere with their Often too distracted by its own problems to take anĪctive role in managing them, the colonies also developed their own local representative governments. But because the colonies were far away from the mother country and because the mother country was Inherited from England was a factor that united them with Empire. So I would say that the politicalĬulture that the colonies, and later the United States, ![]() A shared sense that all citizens, both at home and in the colonies, enjoyed the rights of Englishmen. The political exchanges between the colonies and England. Resistance to Britain's control? Let's take a look at the major political, social and economicĮxchanges that took place between the British EmpireĪnd the 13 colonies, and compare whether they either brought the colonies in the motherĬountry closer together or created resentment thatĭrove them further apart. ![]() During this period ofĬolonial development, how British were the American colonists? What aspects of society brought them closer with the mother country, and what aspects brought on Particular unite and rebel? So that leaves us with a question. Than 30 British colonies in the Caribbean and Something clearly different about the 13 colonies in North America. Spoke the same language, drank the same tea, andįought the same enemies as their counterparts Most American colonist thought of themselves as English citizens who were part of the British Empire. ![]() The American colonies left them to develop self-government and a sense of independence. Kept changing hands, and some monarchs tookĪ more hands on approach towards the colonies than others. Internal strife like the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, meant that the government Unified colonial systems, the English Empire was Compared to the SpanishĮmpire in the New World, which had clear goals and ![]() Some founded as religious refuges, some as proprietary colonies, Haphazardly popping up along the Atlantic Over the next century more and more English settlements began They didn't, but they didįind that they could grow a valuable cash crop in tobacco. It was intended to be a get rich quick scheme for its investors, who hoped they would find gold Long-term English colony in North America was establishedĪt Jamestown in 1607. ![]()
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