Examples of royal colonies in the following topics:
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- Each colony had a paid colonial agent in London to represent its interests.
- Provincial colonies, also known as royal colonies, were under the direct control of the king, who usually appointed a royal governor.
- Proprietary colonies were governed much as provincial colonies except that Lords Proprietors, rather than the king, appointed the governor.
- Massachusetts began as a charter colony in 1684 but became a provincial colony in 1691.
- In a charter colony, Britain granted a charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed.
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- The Province of Carolina, originally chartered in 1629, was an English and later British colony of North America.
- They named their colony Carolina, and they themselves were called the Lords Proprietors.
- The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
- A rebellion against the proprietors broke out in 1719 which led to the appointment of a royal governor for South Carolina in 1720.
- After nearly a decade in which the British government sought to locate and buy out the proprietors, both North and South Carolina became royal colonies in 1729.
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- The Dutch colony of New Netherland was captured by the British and chartered by the Duke of York, who later became James II of England.
- In March, 1665, the Duke of York was granted a Royal colony which included New Netherland and present-day Maine.
- The Duke of York never visited his colony, named New York in his honor, and exercised little direct control over it.
- New York became a royal province in February of 1685 when its proprietor, the Duke of York, was crowned King James II of England.
- This map shows the changing boundaries of the colony of New York from the 17th to 18th centuries.
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- The colonies began as disparate political units, eventually merging themselves into thirteen cohesive colonies.
- Saybrook Colony was founded in 1635 and merged with Connecticut Colony in 1644.
- New Haven was absorbed by Connecticut Colony with the issuance of the Connecticut Charter in 1662, partly as royal punishment by King Charles II for harboring the regicide judges who sentenced King Charles I to death.
- Carolina colony was divided into two colonies, North Carolina and South Carolina, in 1712.
- Both colonies became royal colonies in 1729.
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- The Middle Colonies consisted of the middle region of the Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire in North America.
- In 1702, Queen Anne united West and East Jersey into one Royal Colony—the Province of New Jersey.
- The Middle Colonies tended to mix aspects of the New England and Southern Colonies.
- Its large exports led to its constituent colonies becoming known as the Bread Basket Colonies.
- Compare the culture of the Middle Colonies with that of other English colonies
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- There were three types of British colonies: Joint Stock, Royal, and Proprietary.
- The British crown controlled royal colonies.
- A single person or family owned proprietary colonies, also called charter colonies.
- The Jamestown colony became a small city within the larger colony of Virginia (which became an economically successful colony due to tobacco).
- The colonial South included the plantation colonies of the Chesapeake region and the lower South.
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- Through the 17th century, Great Britain established 13 colonies in North America and greatly expanded its colonial reach.
- The early colonies also contributed to the rise in population in English America as many thousands of Europeans made their way to the colonies.
- The colonies differed substantially in their economics; while northern colonies relied heavily on the emergence of industry and the production of goods to sell or trade, southern colonies arose out of agriculture and the production of staple crops.
- Southern colonies especially relied on slavery, but all colonies benefited from the institution.
- Isaac Royall and his family, seen here in a 1741 portrait by Robert Feke, moved to Medford, Massachusetts, from the West Indian island of Antigua, bringing their slaves with them.
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- In 1638, she was excommunicated and banished from the colony.
- Following the 1660 restoration of royal rule in England, Rhode Island sought a Royal Charter from the new king, Charles II.
- He granted the request with the Royal Charter of 1663, giving the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations an elected governor and legislature.
- In the following years, many persecuted groups settled in the colony.
- 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.
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- The events of the Glorious Revolution in England had tumultuous repercussions for British colonies in America.
- Leaders of the former Massachusetts Bay Colony then reclaimed control of the government.
- In other colonies, members of governments displaced by the dominion were returned to power.
- Royal authority was not restored until 1691, when English troops and a new governor were sent to New York.
- Analyze colonial tensions that emerged as a result of James II's policies
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- Many Americans saw the colonies' systems of governance as modeled after the British constitution of the time, with the king corresponding to the colonial governor, the House of Commons to the colonial assembly, and the House of Lords to the governor's council.
- From the 1670s several royal governors proposed or attempted to implement means to coordinate defensive and offensive military matters.
- British Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder had decided to wage the war in the colonies with the use of troops from the colonies and tax funds from Britain itself.
- The British elite, the most heavily taxed of any in Europe, pointed out angrily that the colonists paid little to the royal coffers.
- Analyze the factors that helped create a more unified colonial community.