<u><em>In 1684</em></u> the government of <em><u>Charles II</u></em> revoked the <u>Massachusetts Bay Company colonial charter</u>. This was a joint stock trading company chartered by the English crown in 1629 to colonize a vast area in <em><u>New England</u></em>. John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley, Henry Vane, Richard Bellingham, John Endecott, John Leverett, and Simon Bradstreet were some of the Governors. The main reason in England to take this decision was not to attain efficiency in administration but to guarantee that the purpose of the colonies was to make England richer. After the revocation of the <u>Massachusetts charter</u>, <u><em>King Charles II</em></u> and the Lords of Trade moved forward with plans to establish a unified administration over some of the New England colonies.
The US government had imposed tariff policies that set a higher price on imported (foreign) manufactured goods. Because the South was an agricultural economy, it either had to ship down form the North or import from other countries most of the finished goods it consumed. Either option increased the cost of goods for Southerners over the prices paid by Northerners. Because the North was a largely industrial economy, and because raw materials imported for manufacturing were not subject to tariffs, the North faced no such burden. Additionally, because there was no income tax at this time, federal gov't revenue depended largely on tariff revenue -- which meant it was paid disproportionately by the South. This revenue was spent on railroads in the North and in other ways that unfairly benefitted the North while largely ignoring infrastructure and development in the South. South Carolina threatened secession as far back as 1828 over the unfair burden of the protective tariffs.
The idea of "Camelot" called to mind an ideal sort of place, almost like a fairy tale existence. The original "Camelot," of course, was the court of the fabled King Arthur of England and his Knights of the Round Table.
Jackie Kennedy, the wife and then widow of President John F. Kennedy, is the one who originated the reference to the Kennedy time in the White House as "Camelot." She made that reference in an interview for LIFE magazine after her husband's assassination. She was trying to call to mind the high, idealistic principles of King Arthur of Camelot, comparing that to what her husband JFK had wanted to accomplish as president.
