Chapter+5+Colonial+Society+on+the+Eve+of+Revolution

· 1775, 32 colonies in North America · 1700, 300,000 people, 20,000 are black (inhabited 13 colonies) · 1775, 2.5 million people, 500,000 are black (inhabited 13 colonies) · 400,000 of these were white immigrants · 400,000 of these were black “forced immigrants” · The rest was natural reproduction from both races · Population of colonists doubling every 25 years · 1775, average age of the colonists was 16 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1700, English population to colonist population 20 to 1 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1775, English population to colonist population 3 to 1 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1775, vanguard of pioneers discovered Tennessee and Kentucky <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1775, most populous colonies in order were Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Maryland <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Only 4 communities could be called cities: Philadelphia (with suburbs) had 34,000 residents, then New York, Boston, and Charleston <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">90% of people lived in rural areas <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Colonial America was a melting pot from the beginning <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1775, Germans were 6% or 150,000 of the population <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">They came to America in the 1700’s and are 1/3 of the population of Pennsylvania <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1775, Scots-Irish 7% or 175,000 of the population <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1764, armed march of the Paxton Boys in Philadelphia, protesting the Quaker oligarchy’s lenient policy toward the Indians <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5% of the colonial population were French, Welsh, Dutch, Swedes, Jews, Irish, Swiss, and Scots Highlanders <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1775, Africans consisted of 20% of the population <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">New England showed the least ethnic diversity <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The middle colonies contained half English population <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1776, 18 of the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence were non-English and 8 of them had not been born in the colonies <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1750, richest 10% of Bostonians and Philadelphians owned nearly 2/3 of the taxable wealth in their cities <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1730’s Philadelphia and New York built almshouses to care for the destitute (widows and orphans) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1750, Boston had a large number of homeless poor who were helped by charities and were compelled to wear a red “P” on their clothes <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1760, South Carolinian colonial legislatures saw dangers present in a heavy concentration of resentful slaves, but England vetoed all efforts to stem the transatlantic traffic of slaves <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Smallpox was an epidemic, but a crude form of an inoculation was introduced in 1721 <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Diphtheria was a deadly killer, especially to young people, thousands died of it in the 1730’s <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1693, College of William and Mary founded <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1701, Yale College founded <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1721, Smallpox inoculation introduced <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1732, First edition of Franklin’s //Poor Richard’s Almanac// <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1734, Jonathan Edwards begins //Great Awakening// <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1734-1735, Zenger free-press trial in New York <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1738, George Whitefield spreads //Great Awakening// <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1746, Princeton College founded <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1760, Britain vetoes South Carolina anti-slave trade measures <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1764, Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1764, Brown College founded <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1768-1771, Regulator protests <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1769, Dartmouth College founded