Common Ingredients Original Life Savors Hard Candy Common

Common Ingredients • Original Life Savors Hard Candy • Common ingredients • Each Life Saver candy contains sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid and artificial coloring. Each Life Saver in the 5 flavor pack contains around 11 calories, 3 g of carbohydrate, 0 g fat and 0 g protein.

13 Colonies were like a pack of “life savers” All had common “British ingredients” but soon developed their own distinct flavors !

All were trade colonies ! COMMON INGREDIENTS

Common Ingredients • Extensions of the Mother Country - MERCANTILISM All loyal British subjects and had ties to the crown • All had charters to colonize /corp. /crown/prop. Charter Royal Colony Proprietary Colony Plymouth Colony Joint Stock Co.

• • Not a huge gap between rich and poor Most were courageous commoners • • • Debtors Farmers Indentured servants People Discontent with the old life wanted a new start Religious zealots • Some were skilled craftsmen and gentry class adventures! • Joint stock owners

Common ingredient Willing to Experiment • Willing to try new forms of political participation and looked for new ways for the colony to survive in an fragile environment. • Relied on hard work to survive. Owned the land they worked on. Self motivated! • Willing to take a risk everything in order to gain a better way of life !

Flavor of Government • Joint Charter Colonies – established by groups of settlers who had been given a charter, or grant of rights and privileges. These colonies elected their own governors and representatives. • Proprietary Colonies– rules by individuals or groups to whom Britain had granted land rights. Power shared between proprietor and colonists. • Royal or Crown Colonies – Britain directly rules these colonies. Governors were appointed by Parliament and did what Great Britain demanded. • Only white men who owned property had the right to vote and represent colonists in elected assemblies.

New England Government • Joint Stock - Charters – Governor could not veto acts of legislature – Gov. elected by voters • Royal Charter – Gov. appointed by the King ruled directly by England /customized by colonists • The Mayflower Compact • The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Charter New Hampshire Royal Charter Massachusetts Royal Charter Rhode Island Charter

Middle Colonies Government • Proprietary – • rule by proprietors • Equality &Religious Tolerance • Freedom of the Press • Strong Courts New York Royal Charter Pennsylvania Proprietary New Jersey Royal Charter Delaware Proprietary

Southern Colonies Government • Royal and Proprietary Charters. • The House of Burgesses • Colonies run for the profits of the Joint. Stock Company or Proprietors / lots of Direct trade with the Mother Country Maryland Proprietary Virginia Royal Charter North Carolina Royal Charter South Carolina ? Georgia Royal Charter

Common ingredients in Colonial Government Patterned after British Parliament • Elected legislature • Two House Assembly • Upper House: richest / most important or educated men in the colony (some appointed) • Lower House: (Assembly) members elected by the colonists. • Laws had to be approved by both houses and the governor. Crown Colonies = King also had to approve laws!