HISTORY 7A Lecture Notes - New Netherland, English Civil War, English Language In England
10 Oct 2013
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History lecture #10: from english colonies to british empire, 1676-1740. How england, scotland and the colonies of these places begin to come together to form the british empire: from a minor european power to a leading power in the world. Climate, soil and everything was similar to virginia. Maryland was a place for catholic refugees as opposed to virginia. I (king james" son) was actually sympathetic to roman. Maryland would be to catholics what massachusetts was to puritans with approval of the crown. Problem that maryland faced was that unlike the puritan movement, Roman catholics in england didn"t have the constituency in the lower ranks to move to england the way that the puritans did. Limited ability of maryland leaders to bring over roman catholics meant that although it was officially roman catholic, it was very much populated by protestants: from new netherlands to new york. Competing netherlands established colony in north america in new.
