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Converging Identities, Diverging Interests

Converging Identities, Diverging Interests, 1680s-1740s

I. Trade & CommerceII. PoliticsIII. Culture

IV. ImmigrationV. SlaveryVI. Conclusions

Trade and Commerce I. Mercantilism A. Regulations

1. English language/crews 2. Trade through England; taxed 3. Subsidies to protect British products

II. Cash crops A. Rice, sugar, tobacco, indigo, cottonIII. Manufactured imports A. Sold back to colonies

PoliticsI. Glorious Revolution, 1680s A. Liberal monarchy B. “Salutary Neglect”II. Representation A. Virtual vs. Actual B. Colonial governorsIII. “Contentment” thru 1740s

Colonial CultureI. Want unique culture A. Colonial identityII. Similar to BRIII. Feel inferior

Age of Enlightenment

I. Science & philosophy A. Rxn to Christian fundamentalism B. Natural laws C. Rationality & reason D. Improve mankind E. John Locke &

Isaac Newton F. Impact on Politics

Religious ChangeN.E.: Puritan, but more

politically liberal

South: Weak Anglican Church

Middle: Most diverse

First “Great Awakening” 1720’s-1760s

I. Religious revivalism A. Reaction to Christian fundamentalism &

Puritanism B. “Populist/Frontier” tendencies C. Diversity D. Caused many churches to split up

Revivalism and George Whitefield

I. Whitefield A. Tent gatherings B. Mass conversions II. “New Lights” A. Converts B. Anti-authoritarianIII. Democratic

Immigration

1700: 290,000 colonists

1750: 1.5 million High birth, low mortality Death rate 20% lower than BR Land, crops, trading No large famines

Scots-Irish

I. Scotland/IrelandII. Indentured

servants A.

Convicts/dissentersIII. Push-pull factorsIV. Community culture A. Carolinas

Germans

I. Push-pull A. Land loss B. PennsylvaniaII. Convicts & dissenters

Benjamin Franklin“Why should the Palatinate Boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their languages and manners to the exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion ? (Palatine=Southern Germany)

Immigration by 1760

Faster in SouthSquatting in the “backcountry”Chain migrationRegional differencesNative lands

Colonial Slavery

A. Labor costB. Native Resistance

& Disease

C. Access to landD. Race and slaveryE. InvestmentF. Plantations

Africa and the Slave Trade

New Captives

The Middle Passage

African tradersBarracoons6-8 week tripUp to 25% died60% from “gold coast”5% to colonies

Slavery in Colonies British West Indies, Caribbean South CarolinaProfited all coloniesSlave codes

Early Resistance

Stono Rebellion, 1739South CarolinaAngolaDozens killedIncreased fear and oppression

ConclusionsReactions to religious fundamentalismImmigration & generations of colonists“Salutary Neglect”Colonial identityGrowth of slaveryNative communitiesEnlightenment


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