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Chapter 5 Conquest by the Cradle- · By 1775, 2.5 million people inhabited the 13 colonies. · In 1700, there were twenty English subjects for each colony. · By 1775, the English advantage in numbers had fallen to there to one, shifting the power between the colonies and Britain. The Structure of Colonial Society- · America seemed like a land of equality and opportunity. · The conflicts of the 1690s and early 1700s increased the number of merchant princes in the New England and middle colonies. · They laid the foundation of their fortunes and sat atop the social class ladder. · <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Farms shrunk and the homeless increased because wealth was not distributed equally. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Workday America- <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ninety percent of the industry was agriculture. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The triangle- trade allowed merchants to trade goods between the Americas, Africa, and Europe. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Americans began demanding more and more British products. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In 1733, Parliament passed the Molasses Act to decrease the amount of trade between North America and the French West Indies. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Schools and Colleges- <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Education flourished in New England. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Education was for the upper or middle classes since farm labor took up most of the time for lower class youths. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Nine colleges were established during the colonial time- (Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Colombia, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth). <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Colonial Folkways- <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Communication and transportation among the colonies were improving. All the colonies were also separated by the authority of the English, three thousand miles away. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">