AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Netherland, Navigation Acts, Mercantilism
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Global competition and the expansion of england"s empire. Great britain is steering commercial development -- commercial empire. Taxation on imports through the colonies or mother country. The colonists were not taxed directly by the mother country. King charles the first got his head chopped off. King charles the second has many people loyal to him. Trying to pay the debt to his supporters. He gave 8 lords massive land grants in the carolinas. The native american slaves were quickly replaced with black slaves. William penn got a massive land grant for pennsylvania. Delaware was the bottom 3 counties of pennsylvania which separated after william penn allowed them to since they didn"t get along. 1675 virginia made it difficult to free slaves that were christianized. West african slave and their children, great children, great great children and so on were all considered west african slaves whether or not they were american born or not.