American Life

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American Life Colonial Society to the Eve of
the Revolution

• AP Chapters 4 5

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The Tobacco Economy
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Indentured Servitude

• Working for Freedom Dues
• A few barrels of corn
• New suit of clothes
• Small piece of land
• Headright System
• Pay the passage of a laborer get 50 acres
• Wealthy amassed huge landholdings
• Frustrated Freedmen
• Land becomes scarcer
• Cant find a wife

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Bacons Rebellion - 1676

• 1,000 Freedmen
• Put down an Indian Revolt, torched Jamestown
  chased Gov. William Berkeley out of town
• Wealthy planters begin to fear large numbers of
  landless freedmen

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Colonial Slavery

• African coastal tribes captured and sold slaves
  to merchants
• More than 20 would die on the Middle Passage
• Harsh slave codes passed
• A few slaves eventually become slaveholders
  themselves

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Slave Culture

• Gullah
• Goober
• Voodoo
• Music Dances
• Banjo
• Bongo Drums

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The New England Family

• Life expectancy 70 years
• Women marry at 20 have babies about every 2
  years.
• Strong families, grandparents take a role
• Divorce extremely rare
• Education important
• Towns with 50
• Old Deluder Satan Laws

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Harvard - 1636
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Half-Way Covenant

• Population grows but church membership declines
• Half-Way Covenant admitted to baptism (but not
  communion) unconverted children of existing
  members
• Weakens strict Puritan practices

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Praying Towns
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Salem Witch Trials 1692
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New England

• Poor Soil, cold climate .
• Diversified agriculture and industry
• Yankee Ingenuity
• Puritan Work Ethic

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Colonial Growth

• 1700 20 Englishmen per colonist
• 1775 3 Englishmen per colonist
• Largest non-English colonial group was African
  20 of the population in 1775

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Germans (Deutsch) 6 of pop in 1775

• Variety of Protestant sects (mostly Lutheran)
• Fled wars, religious oppression
• No loyalty to British

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Scots-Irish 7 of population in 1775

• Predominantly Presbyterian
• Pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic
• Whiskey distilling frontiersmen
• Paxton Boys
• Regulators in NC
• No loyalty to British

• 12 future presidents..

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Other Groups 5 of population in 1775

• French Huguenots
• Welsh
• Dutch
• Swedes
• Jews
• Irish
• Swiss
• No loyalty to British
• Melting Pot

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Religion in the Colonies

• Church of England (Anglican Church) official in
• GA, SC, NC, VA, parts of NY
• Congregational Church (Puritanism) official in
• All of New England except RI
• Roman Catholics were discriminated against
• General feeling of Religious Toleration
  especially in Middle Colonies

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Great Awakening
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Jonathan Edwards

• Preached that salvation could not be achieved by
  good works, only through Gods grace
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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George Whitefield

• Electrifying Orator
• Appealed to emotions
• Countless sinners would holler and express
  conversion at many revival meetings

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• Old Lights
• Orthodox clergymen who were skeptical of the
  emotionalism of the Great Awakening
• New Lights
• Defended the Awakening and the revitalizing of
  religion
• Congregationalists
• Began a steady decline

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Colonial Literature the Press
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BenjaminFranklin

• Poor Richards Almanack
• Many famous sayings
• A penny saved is a penny earned
• Honesty is the best policy

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• Also a first rate scientist/inventor
• Electricity
• Bifocals
• Franklin Stove
• Lightening Rod

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Zenger Trial

• Peter Zenger, NY newspaper editor
• Critical of the Royal Governor
• Defended by Alexander Hamilton
• Found Not Guilty
• Establishes the precedent of a free press

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Comparing theColonies

• Charter Colonies
• CT RI
• Proprietary Colonies
• MD, PA, DE
• Royal Colonies
• The remaining 8