History 2301E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: William Gouge, Aristocracy, New England Town
28 Mar 2017
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What was the relationship between the core (england) and the periphery? (colonies) Power transferred unintentionally from the core to the periphery. Salutary neglect : helpful that the british neglected the colonies. Allowed the colonies to set up their own self-government with little interference. Local governments in the colonies survived and flourished without britain. Britain more interested in the economics of the colonies. Believed your country would be stronger if they held onto their wealth. Mercantilism argued that the total amount of wealth in the world was fixed. Laws set up to advantage english shipping and trade. All colonial trade sent in english ships or ships made in the colonies. Enumerated goods (sugar and tobacco) could only be shipped from a colony to england or too another british colony. Parliament invents own myth of colonial founding (colonial myth): Parliament tries to suggest that the colonies had been created for the enrichment of.
