HIST 2055 Chapter : Sep 3 Outline
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No centralized empire: for a long time there was no colonial bureaucracy (underneath the king, believed that the colonies existed to help the motherland. Population transfer (why?: want to send people over to the new land (make them money, england was having a significant increase in population, lots of poverty, wanted to kick the bad out and move them to america. Pattern: the brave were the ones that made the most money, not the already rich, if you were eu and wanted to get rich, go to the islands. Crucial changes (3: eliminates harsh code of law, creates house of burgesses (representative, head right system: come and settle, 50 acres per person. Sets of boom time : people want to go now because of, tobacco, free land, money, tobacco needs labor, 1st labor key slaves: english servants, traffic in servants, treated pretty awfully. Emrrgence of a more normal society: maryland, collapse of the boom, a new aristocracy.
