Mercantilism In New England

England was governed by strict laws and regulations created by the King, who didn’t allow the citizens much freedom. The Englishmen weren’t allowed to practice religious freedom without being prosecuted nor were they able to give input into their government. They also grew tired of the warfare in England and wanted to seek a new start and thought that America was the perfect suit for them. The King initially rejected the voyage, but eventually expected the idea of mercantilism and saw the potential economic opportunities that it presented. Mercantilism is the concept of exporting more goods and services than importing to increase the nation’s wealth, and in this particular case it was Britain. This provided groups such as the Puritans, Pilgrims,
They focused mainly on subsistence farming and harvested crops such as wheat, rye, and corn in large trading cities of New York and Philadelphia. Farmers had created a seasonal crop rotation schedule to adjust to large scale farming. The husband was the head of the household and women were the helpmates and had no rights. They couldn’t receive an inheritance due to practices known as primogeniture, in which the eldest son received the family estate or the land was divided amongst the children and after marriage it belonged to her husband. The colonist constantly advocated to new migrants to move the New England and become tenants, but most new comers wanted to own their own land as opposed to being a tenant. Although the middle colonies were religiously and ethnically diverse, marriage outside ethnic groups wasn’t heavily
Black Codes of the Middle Colonies shared the same political views and treatment of slaves of those in the South. These laws listed specific restrictions of slaves and constituted them as legal property, and any violation of these laws would result in immense consequences. The laws in every state but they all shared the same principles that slaves had no rights and were strictly property. The treatment of slaves began to worsen as the colonies began more race conscious and developed a sense of superiority. In 1712 and 1714 two separate rebellions are noted to have occurred in New York, it’s reported that “slaves burned a house and shot the whites when they were inside and tried to come out” (Alexander and Rucker, 2010). Although slavery in the heart of New England wasn’t as large scale as in the South, the damage and consequences were the