Monarch and Parliament got on quite well together. ✿ The Whigs, were the political 'descendants' of the parliamentarians - supported the Protestant values of hard work and thrift, were sympathetic to Dissenters, and believed in government by monarch and aristocracy together. ✿ The Tories, had a greater respect for the idea of the monarchy and the importance of the Anglican Church ✿ The two terms, Whig and Tory, had in fact first been used in the late 1670s ✿ At the beginning of the century, by agreement, the Scottish Parliament joined with the English and Welsh Parliament at Westminster in London. ✿ Scotland retained its own system of law ✿ The only part of Britain to change radically as a result of political forces in this century was the highlands area of Scotland. ✿ The highlands area of Scotland twice supported failed attempts to put a (Catholic) Stuart monarch back on the throne by force.
Columbus' probable landing point was Dry Harbour, now called Discovery Bay. The capital was moved to Spanish Town, now located in the parish of St. Catherine, as early as 1534. It was then called ,,Villa de la Vega". Spanish Town has the oldest Cathedral in the British colonies. The English Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables seized the island in 1655. In 1660 the population of Jamaica was about 4 500 whites and some 1 500 blacks. As early as the 1670s, blacks formed a majority of the population. During its first 200 years of British rule, Jamaica became one of the world's leading sugar- exporting, slave-dependent nations, producing more than 77 000 tons of sugar annually between 1820 and 1824. The population in 1834 was 371 070 of whom 15 000 were white, 5 000 free black, 40 000 coloured or mixed race, and 311 070 slaves. Strong economic growth, averaging approximately 6% per annum, marked the first
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