English settlement in America

Séance 2

1607: Happened Jamestown the first permanent English settlement. James the first was the first king. Anglicanism was the religion at the time founded by Henry VIll. They came for economie reasons or religious reasons (Puritans) also called the separatists, and also 20% of the colons were slaves.

There was a continuous flow of settlers.

1750 : the 13 colonies were born

1756-1763= war btw France against UK

Uk won and it endend with the treaty of paris

• The beginning of Britain supremacy over what will become the US

• New traxes are going to come for the colonies.

The british believes in sort of unity of British subject whether they lives in uk or in the US.

Most people of the british population were represented in parliament with the property qualification. The American settlers starts to belives that you have to be represented by someone who is near to your concerns.

A slogan was raised “No taxation without representation” = for the British that were representation but not for the Americans.

• The sugar act in 1764: imposed taxed on imported sugar. There were a series of act after this one.
• This lead to the Boston tea party in 1773= they threw all the tea in the Boston harbor to protest against the politics bc some of britains company didn’t had to pay a taxe but the americans’ one had to. It was caried out by a group called the sons of liberty.

After that were written the intolerable acts= the british were aware about the growing dissent in the colony and tried to make an ex of the Massachusetts= they limited the colonies’ autonomy and rights.

1756-63: Seven years war= debt which lead to th sugar act ( 1st of the series)

1773: The Boston tea party= the intolerable acts

1775-83: American revolution.

The conception of “representation” was different.

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