HIST 1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Atlantic World, Proprietary Colony, East Jersey
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Chapter 3: north america in the atlantic world. Three major changes for anglo-america: slave trade, made slavers large profits, plantation owners made large profits. James takes control carefully: there was a large diversity of peoples living in new york and james at first applies. English laws only to its english residents: most of the dutch practices were left in place for them at first, towns were given a choice as to which church would be given their tax money. Colony grows slowly: james did not promote immigration so the colony grew slowly. James regrants land to two friends: james regrants the land between the hudson and delaware rivers to sir george carteret and john berkeley (lord berkeley) Colony grows quickly: berkeley and carteret both encouraged immigration, they did this by offering generous land grants, limited freedom of religion, and a representative assembly (the latter not made known to the king)
