RF-+Chapter+5+Notes

Chapter 5 · There were really 35 original colonies, but only thirteen unfurled the standard of rebellion. · By 1775, the colony population had grew from almost 300,000 to 2.5 million! · The population boom caused the English advantage numbers to fall from three to one. · The American colonies were already a huge melting pot. · The colonies were almost a Utopian society because no titled nobility dominated society from on high and no pauperized underclass threatened it from below. · Worries began of a lot of “Europianization” was occurring in America in late seventeenth century. · 1701- Yale College was founded. · 1721- Smallpox inoculation was induced. · 1732- The first edition of Franklin’s //Poor Richard’s Almanac// was written. · The colonies had abundant agriculture and strong horsepower and sail power. · 1734- Jonathon Edwards began The Great Awakening. · 1734- the Zenger free-press trial in New York previewed another reason for a revolution. · 1738- George Whitefield began the spread of The Great Awakening. · 1746- Princeton College was founded. · 1760- Britain vetoed South Carolina’s anti-slave trade measures. · 1764- The Paxton Boys marched on Philadelphia. · 1764- Brown College was founded. · 1766- Rutgers’s College was founded. · 1768-1771- The Regulator Protests occurred. · 1769- Dartmouth college was founded.