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Colonial Life
1607-1763
Southern Colonies New England Colonies Middle Colonies Imperialistic System Diversity
Major Themes
The Southern Colonies
Describe the Southern economy and the plantation system.
Outline the development of slavery in the South.
Explain the rise of the planter elite in colonial Southern society.
Commercial agriculture
1. tobacco2. rice & indigo3. Plantations
Demand Chesapeake Bay Indentured Servitude
1. need2. contract
South Carolina1. rice2. indigo
Economy
Plantation system tended to create a society
with distinct social classes Gentry Self contained communities Planters
1. 1600’s2. 1700’s
Yeoman farmers1. Subsistence farming2. tobacco
Society
Governor William Berkeley
1. Tax exemption2. Voting disenfranchisement
Land Nathaniel Bacon (1676) Result
1. Land expansion2. Expansion of slavery3. Royal African Company (1672)
Bacon’s Rebellion
10-12 million slaves transported to the
Americas b/w 1450-1870 Middle Passage Chattel slavery Slave code
Slavery
Why did Southern tobacco planters use
indentured servants to work their fields? What was the difference between the planter
elite and backcountry farmers? What situation led to Bacon’s Rebellion? Why was slavery particularly entrenched in
the Southern colonies?
Chapter 3.1 Review Questions
New England & Middle Colonies• New England’s Economy• New England Towns• Rise of Cities• Middle Colonies
Diverse economy Corn Grand Banks Whaling Lumbering
1. Timber2. Fall line
New England’s Economy
Church covenants Town proprietors Town meetings Selectmen Meetinghouse “Holy Watching”
New England Towns
Merchants Triangular Trade
1. New England2. Caribbean3. England
Urban Social Class1. Wealthy merchants2. Artisans3. Unskilled workers4. Forced laborers
Overcrowding
Rise of Cities
Fertile land Wheat Rivers (Hudson, Delaware, and
Susquehanna) Wheat boom Entrepreneurs Capitalists Class System
1. Wealthy entrepreneurs2. Farmers3. Tenant farmers
Middle Colonies
How did the geography of New England affect
its economy? What was the importance of New England
town meetings? What social classes made up urban society in
colonial America? How did geography affect the economy of the
Middle Colonies?
Chapter 3.2 Review Questions
The British Imperial System• Mercantilism• The Glorious Revolution
Economic system that emphasized a country had to
accumulate gold and silver through exports and imports Self sufficient in raw materials Provides reliable markets & eager suppliers Navigation Acts
1. All goods must be transported in GBR ships2. Enumerated commodities3. Staple Act
Custom inspectors Commissioners of Trade and Plantations (1675) Dominion of New England (1686) Sir Edmund Andros
Mercantilism
James II Mary and William of Orange Glorious Revolution English Bill of Rights
1. Abolish king’s absolute power2. Impose taxes or raise army3. Freedom of speech and cruel & unusual punishment4. Toleration Act
New Charter for Massachusetts Bay John Locke
1. Two Treatises of Government2. Justification of revolution3. Natural rights
Glorious Revolution of 1688
Why did James II create the Dominion of New
England? What did the English Bill of Rights provide?
Chapter 3.3 Review Questions
Diverse Society• Family Life• Immigrants• Africans• Enlightenment• Great Awakening
Explosive growth Birthrate Legal status Disease Cotton Mather
Family Life
Pennsylvania Dutch Scot-Irish Jews
Immigrants
West Africa South Carolina
1. Gullah2. Control
Virginia1. English2. Control
Stono Rebellion
Africans
Enlightenment
1. Rationalism2. Jacques Rosseau3. Baron Montesquieu
Great Awakening1. Pietism2. Revivals3. Jonathan Edwards4. George Whitfield
Intellectual Movements
Why did the colonial population increase
dramatically in the 1700’s? What reasons did immigrants have for coming
to the American colonies? How did enslaved Africans fight back against
slavery? What was the difference between the
Enlightenment and Great Awakening?
Chapter 3.4 Review Questions