AH+Chapter+5

**// Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution //// (1700-1775) // __ Population __ __ Jobs __ __ Religion __ __ Schooling __ __ Artists __ __ Science __ __ Literature __ __ Communication __ __ Politics __ __ Voting __ __Way of Life__
 * Chapter 5
 * Population was booming: 1700-300,000 people, 20,000 black 1755 2.5 million people, .5 black, 6% German, 7% Scot-Irish, 5% other European groups, 20% Africans
 * 18th century: no real social classes, “equality and opportunity”. Vs. 17th century: everything was militarized, and the amount of poor people didn’t compare to England’s
 * New England Countryside: losing land and less is available vs. South: Plantation owners with a lot of slaves were rich and strong.
 * Christian Ministry, Doctors, Agriculture, Fishing and Shipbuilding, Seamen, Manufacturing (used the Triangular Trade route)
 * Great Britain couldn’t keep up with imports from New England to give New England a profit, so New England turned to other countries to deport things to. Great Britain didn’t like this so they set the Molasses Act. to stop this espeacily with the French West Indies.
 * Religious influences: Johnathan Edwards (painted “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God”) and George Whitefeild (a good speaker)
 * Anglicans: members of the Church of England
 * Congregation Church: mainly New England colonies (but Rhode Island), assorted with Presbyterianism
 * Roman Catholics: rare, discriminated against
 * Arminians: Dutch theologian, Jacobus Arminius fallowers
 * Mainly for boys about Greek and Latin Languages
 * Thinking for yourself was bad
 * Birched punishment
 * College was mainly for boys to prepare for ministry
 * John Thumbull, Benjamin West, and John Singleton Copley went to England to become famous
 * Charles Willsion Peale: famous for George Washington portaits
 * Benjamin Franklin (kite experiment)
 * Phillis Wheatley: slave girl when young, went to England, published poetry
 * Vertile Benjamin Franklin: the “first civilized American”, famous for his biography and “poor Richard’s Almonack”
 * Newspaper: behind in stories
 * Libraries: very few
 * Freedom of Press: Zinger didn’t write the full truth and was found not guilty
 * North: 8/13 colonies had royal Govs. Appointed by the king, most had 2 houses of legislative body (upper house- council, voted by “royal colonies” lower house: popular branch voted by qualified voters) and self-taxation threw representation. South: everything decided by town meetings, held by town people.
 * Religious and property qualifications
 * Everyday things that were being taken advantage off were slowly disappearing and being replaced by social activities (winter sports in the north, card playing in the south)