NG+Chapter+5

__Chapter 5 __ · There was actually 32 colonies and not 13 colonies but only 13 colonies rebelled · From 1700 to 1775 the population went from 300,000 to 2.5 million people · The five most populous states were Virginia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Maryland in that order · English made up about 49% of the population, Africans made up 19%, Scottish made up 7%, Germans made up 7%, Scots-Irish made up about 5%, Irish made up about 3%, Dutch made up about 3% and Other Europeans made up the last 9% · Scot-Irish led a very individualistic lifestyle where they had no influential government over them · Of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence eighteen were non-English and eight weren’t born in the colonies · America blurred a lot of tribal identities in Indians and African people · <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Rising up the class scale was much easier in New England than in Old England <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The plague of war on the colonies made princes own two-thirds of the taxable wealth in cities and created many widows and orphans <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In the colonies the number of poor people continued to go up because the rich kept on getting richer and there were more indentured servants <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Two poor people signed the Declaration of Independence <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">England shipped over about fifty-thousand prisoners to the colonies to get rid of them but many of them became respectable citizens because they were arrested for stupid reasons <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">South Carolina could sense a rebellion of the blacks and tried to get England to stop sending them but there bill got vetoed <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 1765 the first medical school was established and bleeding was a favorite method for curing people <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Smallpox hit the colonies so hard that one out of every five people had it and another hard hitting disease was diphtheria <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lawyers were looked at as drunkards and brothel keepers at first because people looked at colony lifestyle as manual labor <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Agriculture was the leading industry in the colonies in mid-1700’s and took up about 90% of the workforce <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Trading really helped out the colonies economy as well as agriculture <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Skilled-craftsman were highly prized in the colonies <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">About one-third of the British merchant marine were American made <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In the eve of Revolution, much of the trading with the colonies happened between European countries and the West Indies, and not all Britain <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Molasses Act was made in hope to bring a halt to New England’s trading with the French West Indies <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">It took 29 days for news of the Declaration of Independence to reach Charleston from Philadelphia <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">An intercolonial postal system was created in mid-1700’s <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The College of William and Mary was founded in 1693 in order to train a better class of clergy <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Many religious leaders did a poor job in separating church from state <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Great Awakening was a time of great religious revival and it was led by Jonathon Edwards <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">George Whitefield was another preacher who led the Great Awakening <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Great Awakening created a sense of unity between colonies <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Puritan New England stressed good education a lot more than any other part of New England <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">With the help of Benjamin Franklin the University of Pennsylvania became the first denominational colleges <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Painters were looked down upon in the colonies <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Benjamin Franklin helped create the bifocal spectacles. Franklin Stove, and the lightning rod <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Benjamin Franklin helped establish the first private library in Philadelphia <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Full freedom of press was not known in the pre-revolutionary time period <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Life in the colonies was not a fun one at all and was full of tons of hardships <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Holidays were constantly celebrated in the colonies except for Christmas