Zusammenfassung der Ressource
19th century Atlantic colonies
- Frontier influences
- class structure
- 3/4 inhabitants born in British North America
- relaxed lifestyle of farmers
- artisans required increasing status
- gender relations
- women worked as skippers of shore crew overseeing drying and packing
- women were in high demand and married early
- political culture
- Evangelical sect growth created conditions that
allowed movement from the established church
- calls for responsible government
- Electors criticized government for corruption
- wanted more liberal land ownership
- capitalist individualism (unemployed authors of
their own misery)
- 1851
- Free Schools Act
- extended voting priviledges
- policy to facilitate government purchase of land to sale to tenants
- tenants unhappy with policy so land holding still contentious
- increased immigration to NF forced Crown to allow colonization
- Metropolitan influences
- NF was originally prevented from colonization - fisheries
- class and race distinctions similar
- money from Britain to support those involved in ship building
- truck system
- elites were usually born in Britain
- domestic
- patriarchy
- women involved in domestic economy
- exceptions to responsible government
- colonial office watched colonial politics closely
- British parlament in control of defense, foreign policy and constitutional amendment
- Loyalists traditional role of supporting British ways and
encouraging British connection