_e_. Write a composition on life in early colonial days (Eggleston's _United States_, 91-113). SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER In treating this chapter aim to make clear the reasons for and conditions of the settlement of each colony. Vividness can best be obtained by a study of the writings of the time, especially of Bradford's _History of Plymouth_. Use pictures in every possible way and molding board as well. Emphasize the lack of true liberty of thought, and lead the children to understand that persecution was a characteristic of the time and not a failing of any particular colony or set of colonists. III A CENTURY OF COLONIAL HISTORY, 1660-1760 Books for Study and Reading References.--Fiske's _United States for Schools_ 133-180; McMaster's _School History_, 93-108 (life in 1763); _Source-Book_, ch. vii; Fisher's _Colonial Era_; Earle's _Child Life_. Home Readings.--Parkman's _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Franklin's _Autobiography_; Brooks's _In Leisler's Times_; Coffin's _Old Times in the Colonies_; Cooper's _Last of the Mohicans_; Scudder's _Men and Manners One Hundred Years Ago_. CHAPTER 8 THE COLONIES UNDER CHARLES II [Sidenote: The Puritan in England. Higginson and Channing, _English History for Americans_, 182-195.] [Sidenote: The Colonies, 1649-60.] 65. The Puritans and the Colonists, 1649-60.--In 1649 Charles I was executed, and for eleven years the Puritans were supreme in England. During this time the New England colonists governed themselves, and paid little heed to the wishes and orders of England's rulers. After some hesitation, the Virginians accepted the authority of Cromwell and the Puritans. In return they were allowed to govern themselves. In Maryland the Puritans overturned Baltimore's governor and ruled the province for some years. [Sidenote: The Restoration, 1660. _English History for Americans_, 196.] [Sidenote: The Navigation Laws.] 66. Colonial Policy of Charles II.--In 1660 Charles II became king of England or was "restored" to the throne, as people said at the time. Almost at once there was a great revival of interest in colonization, and the new government interfered vigorously in colonial affairs. In 1651 the Puritans had begun the system of giving the English trade only to English merchants and shipowners. This system was now extended, and the more important colonial products could be carried only to English ports. [Sidenote: Charles II and Massachusetts.] [Sidenote: Massachusetts and the Quakers. _Higginson_, 80-81.]