Dominion of New England

Examples of Dominion of New England in the following topics:

• The Glorious Revolution in America

  • The Glorious Revolution led to the dissolution of the Dominion of New England and the establishment of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • King Charles II of England began taking steps in the early 1680s to reorganize the New England colonies.
  • When Charles II died in 1685, his successor, the Roman Catholic James II, continued the unification process, which culminated in the creation of the Dominion of New England.
  • In 1686, Sir Edmund Andros, the former governor of New York, was appointed as Dominion governor.
  • Nicholson was deposed as lieutenant governor of the Dominion of New England when news of the Glorious Revolution reached North America.

• The Dominion of New England

  • The Dominion of New England was a short-lived administrative union of multiple colonies.
  • The Dominion of New England in North America was an administrative union of English colonies, including the territories of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the Province of Maine, and the Narragansett Country (present-day Washington County, Rhode Island).
  • When the other New England colonies in the Dominion were informed of the overthrow of Andros, pre-Dominion colonial authorities moved to restore their former governments to power.
  • The seal of the Dominion of New England was ordered by King James II of England.
  • Describe the Crown's aims in creating the Dominion of New England and the reasons for its demise

• Colonies in Crisis

  • The events of the Glorious Revolution in England had tumultuous repercussions for British colonies in America.
  • They arrested dominion officials as a protest against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.
  • Furthermore, he had infuriated Puritans in Boston by promoting the Church of England, which was disliked by many Nonconformist New England colonists.
  • Members of the Church of England, believed by Puritans to sympathize with the administration of the dominion, were also taken into custody by the rebels.
  • In other colonies, members of governments displaced by the dominion were returned to power.

• Rhode Island

  • In particular, she held that Puritan ministers in New England taught a shallow version of Protestantism emphasizing hierarchy and actions—a “covenant of works” rather than a “covenant of grace.”
  • Williams wrote favorably about the American Indian peoples, contrasting their virtues with Puritan New England’s intolerance.
  • Following the 1660 restoration of royal rule in England, Rhode Island sought a Royal Charter from the new king, Charles II.
  • The colony was folded into the Dominion of New England in 1686, as King James II attempted to enforce royal authority over the autonomous colonies in British North America.
  • Although Rhode Island remained at peace with the American Indians, the relationship between the other New England colonies and the American Indians was more strained and often led to bloodshed.

• The Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • In 1624, the Plymouth Council for New England established a small fishing village at Cape Ann.
  • About 20,000 people migrated to New England in the 1630s, and for the next 10 years, there was a steady exodus of Puritans from England to Massachusetts and the neighboring colonies, a phenomenon now called the Great Migration.
  • Ongoing political difficulties with England after the English Restoration led to the revocation of the colonial charter in 1684 and the brief establishment by King James II of the Dominion of New England in 1686 to bring all of the New England colonies under firmer crown control.
  • Hundreds were accused of witchcraft in Puritan New England, including townspeople whose habits or appearance bothered their neighbors or who appeared threatening for any reason.
  • Prior to the arrival of Europeans on the eastern shores of New England, the area around Massachusetts Bay was the territory of several Algonquian tribes, including the Massachusett, Nauset, and Wampanoag.

• An Emerging Colonial System

  • The colonies were: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • England's policies aimed to keep the colonies as captive markets for British industry in order to enrich the mother country.
  • Outside Puritan New England, election day brought men from the countryside to the county seat to shake hands with the candidates, meet old friends, and hear the speeches—all while toasting, eating, gaming and gambling.
  • The Dominion of New England was created in 1685 by a decree from King James II that consolidated Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Province of New York, East Jersey, and West Jersey into a single larger colony.
  • New Haven was settled in late 1637.

• Norman Architecture

  • Norman architecture is a style of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion during the 11th and 12th centuries.
  • Norman architecture is a style of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence during the 11th and 12th centuries.
  • Indeed, England was influential in the development of Romanesque architecture and has the largest number of surviving examples.
  • After a fire damaged Canterbury Cathedral in 1174, Norman masons introduced the new Gothic architecture.
  • Discuss the influence of Normandy and Norman architecture in France and England

• The Expansion of England's Empire

  • Eventually, with Confederation of Canada, the Canadian colonies were granted a significant amount of autonomy and became a self-governing Dominion in 1867.
  • England also took over the Dutch colony of New Netherland (including the New Amsterdam settlement), which was renamed the Province of New York in 1664.
  • The Treaty of Union of 1706 combined England and Scotland into a new sovereign state called Great Britain.
  • The Act provided for the subjects of the new state to "have full freedom and intercourse of trade and navigation to and from any port or place within the said united kingdom and the Dominions and Plantations thereunto belonging. " While the Treaty of Union also provided for the winding up of the Scottish African and Indian Company, it made no such provision for the English companies or colonies.
  • Summarize the effect of European colonization on the indigenous peoples of the New World

• Mill Towns and Company Towns

  • In the early and mid-19th century, mills proliferated in New England.
  • At their peak there were more than 2,500 company towns, housing 3% of the US population.
  • Beginning with technological information smuggled out of England by Francis Cabot Lowell, large mills were established in New England in the early- to mid-19th century.
  • "In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. " - Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, 1969
  • Finally, the Great Depression acted as a catalyst that sent several struggling New England firms into bankruptcy.

• Settling the Southern Colonies

  • At the time, they consisted of South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia; their historical names were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, the Province of Carolina, and the Province of Georgia.
  • The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore, who wished to create a haven for Roman Catholics in the New World at the time of the European wars of religion.
  • The next major development in the history of the Southern Colonies was the Province of Carolina, originally chartered in 1629.
  • The first permanent English settlement was established in 1653 when emigrants from the Virginia Colony, New England, and Bermuda settled on the shores of Albemarle Sound in the northeastern corner of present-day North Carolina.
  • The Province of Georgia (also called the Georgia Colony) was the last of the 13 original colonies established by Great Britain.