Development of British North America on America

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Development of British North America on Americas
Economy and SocietySECTION 4

• Mercantilism
• Trans-Atlantic trade
• Middle Passage
• Great Awakening
• Growth in African American population
• Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility
  and individualism

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COLONIAL SYSTEM

• MERCANTILISM
• All the colonies developed economies that allowed
  settlers to survive and prosper but each colony
  differed in its religious, cultural and political
  customs

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• 13 COLONIES
• WHERE along the Atlantic Ocean
• WESTERN BOUNDARY for Southern Middle
  Appalachian Mountains
• WHO Founded by Great Britain between 1607-1732.
• PURPOSE
• economic opportunities, political freedoms,
  religious freedoms to escape persecution
• REGIONS
• NEW ENGLAND New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode
   Island, Connecticut
• MIDDLE (MID-ATLANTIC) New York, New Jersey,
  Pennsylvania, Delaware
• SOUTHERN Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
  South Caroline, Georgia

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• Transatlantic Trade
• Across the Atlantic
• Triangular Trade
• Middle Passage middle
• portion of 3 way voyage
• Load ships with rum, cloth and goods to trade for
  slaves
• MIDDLE PASSAGE slaves transported to New World
• Sell slaves, buy tobacco and other American goods
  and go back to Britain

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Growth of African Population

1. Cash crops tobacco and later cotton
2. Workers plant, grow, harvest crops
3. s majority of slaves were in Southern
   colonies because of agriculture based economies

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GROWTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE

• Music
• Religion
• Dance
• Language
• Culture basket weaving
• Pottery making

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• Founding Father
• Social Mobility and individualism born into poor
  family from Boston, MA
• Printer Apprentice at 12 17
• ran away and sailed to London
• to learn about business
• Returned to Philadelphia in 1726 as experienced
  printer, writer, businessman
• 84 years worlds leading authors, philosophers,
  scientists, inventors, and politicians

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GREAT AWAKENING ?? authority

• 1730s religious revival
• in New England
• Puritans lose grip on society membership
  declines
• Brotherly love NA AA join churches, slavery
  evil
• COLLEGES THAT CAME OUT OF THE Great Awakening
  Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, Columbia

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QUESTIONS

1. 1ST English settlement in North America?
2. What was the City Upon a Hill?
3. 1st French settlement in North America?
4. What was the Middle Passage?
5. What was the 1st representative government in the
   NW?
6. Describe name the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
7. What was the ultimate purpose of the 13 colonies
   for Great Britain?
8. Name and describe the Triangular trade routes.
9. Benjamin Franklin why are the terms social
   mobility and individualism associated with him?
10. Name 3 colleges that came out of the Great
    Awakening