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Bill Fell Mr. Rowells AP US History 20 August 2009 Chapter Five In chapter 5, the context showed that the “13 colonies” were not right. In fact, the Old World ruled 32 colonies counting the Islands and the Caribbean, the Florida’s and Canada. The 13 colonies that are commonly referred to be the colonies that chased to rebel against Great Britain. In 1700, 20000 people of the 300,000 population of the 13 colonies were black. In 1775, 2.5 million people inhabited the 13 colonies while half a million of them were black. The average age of the people of the 13 colonies was 16. The first city in the United State was Philadelphia, who had about 34,000 people. The Scots-Irish led the Paxton Boys on Philadelphia in 1764 protesting the Quakers Government. There were 18 non-English writers, and 8 people that were not even born into the colonies that signed the Declaration of Independence were poor. The first medical school in America was founded in 1765. George Washington was a survivor of small pox. An epidemic of Diphtheria in 1730’s killed thousands of people. By 1759 New York was making about 80 thousand barrels of flour a year. The Molasses Act in 1733 was an attempt to stop Americans to trade with the French West Indies, but the Americans worked around the law by bribing and smuggling. In 1776, it took 29 days after July 4th for the news of Declaration of Independence to reach Charleston from Philadelphia. The taverns back then even had bowling alleys and pool table. The postal system was made in the mid 1700s. In the 1730s and 1740s the Great Awakening begun. The Great Awakening is where Americans went back to religion because of the new ways of teaching, like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. Because of the Great Awakening, other schools opened up like Princeton, Brown, Rutgers and Dartmouth. Benjamin Franklin launched the University of Pennsylvania, which was free from denominational control. Phillis Wheatly of the poor people that pretty much started up the poetry poor colonial period. Benjamin Franklin’s book, __Poor Richards Almanac__ became the second most popular book in America, next to the Bible. Some of Ben Franklin’s inventions were the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, and the Bifocals. Benjamin Franklin also founded the first privately owned library in America. By 1775 8 of the colonies had royal governors. Billiards was a popular game, but the most popular form of pool, eight ball, was into made until 1900. Americans ate more meat than anyone else in the world. There were absolutely no bathtubs anywhere in colonial America. The garbage disposed were long snouted hogs that went down streets eating garbage while buzzards fed on little pieces of waste. Fox hunting, cockfighting, horse racing and car playing were favorites in the south. The most popular holiday was Thanksgiving where people gave their greatness to god, while stuffing their faces with food.