JPChapter+5+Notes

Chapter 5 Notes Colonial Society on eve of Revolution **-Conquest by the cradle**
 * By 1775 2.5 million people, .5 million black in colonies
 * Americans were doubling their numbers every 25 years
 * Most populous in 1775 were Virginia Massachusetts Pennsylvania North Carolina and Maryland
 * -Mingling of the races **
 * 6 percent was heavy German
 * 7 percent Scots Irish
 * Scots-Irish led the armed march of Paxton-Boys on Philadelphia in 1764
 * -Structure of Colonial society **
 * Colonies seen as shining land of opportunity and equality
 * Soon came that people seated in church by social class
 * By 1750s 10 percent of Bostonians and Philadelphians owned 66 percent of taxable wealth
 * -Clerics physicians and jurists **
 * 1775 clergymen were still highly respected
 * 1765 1st medical school established, before physicians were untrained
 * Smallpox affects 1/5 of population, but in 1721 a crude inoculation was produced
 * -Workaday America **
 * Agriculture was the leading industry including 90 percent of people
 * Lumbering was the most important manufacturing activity
 * Tobacco was heavily exported to France and Britain
 * -Horsepower and sail power **
 * 1700s road connected most major cities
 * 1776 new of declaration reached Charleston 29 days later
 * Taverns acted as a gossip place to spread info
 * -Dominant denominations **
 * In 1775 2 tax supported churches included the Anglican and Congregational
 * 1693 college of William and Mary founded to train clerics
 * -Great awakening **
 * Puritan churches sagged under the weight of their elaborate theological doctrines
 * American went back to original religion due to new ways of teaching
 * -Schools and colleges **
 * Puritan NE was most interested in education
 * Education was mostly for men and boys
 * Princeton founded 1746
 * -A provincial culture **
 * Painters like Trumball and Peale came to front of culture
 * Architecture was largely imported from old world
 * Benjamin Franklin published first edition of the Poor Man’s Almanac in 1732
 * -Pioneer Presses **
 * Hand operated printing press produce pamphlets and leaflets
 * News lagged behind many weeks due to lack of transportation
 * Peter Zeager 1734-1735 legal case
 * -The great game of politics **
 * 1775 8 of 13 colonies had royal governments
 * Lord Cornbury appointed governor of NY in 1702
 * Politics became a game of bribery
 * -Main Dates **
 * 1732 1st edition of poor mans almanac published
 * 1734 Great awakening starts- Jon Edwards
 * 1760 Britain vetoes SC anti-slave idea