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Chapter 5&6 Flashcards

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City dwellers

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4% of population lived in NYC, Boston, or Philadelphia
Poverty and disease
Small minority were wealthy-war profiteers

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By 1775 English population was

With an average age of

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2.5 million
16 years old
Lots of scots Irish and German immigrants

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Only major city in the south around 1775

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Charleston

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Farmers

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Most colonials were small subsistence farmers
“Poor whites” in the south
Land shortage in New England
Large families worked on farms

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Slaves

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Poor housing
Poor diet
Usually worked the fields from 7-60 years old
Imposed curfews and dress codes for slaves
House slaves and field hands-hierarchy of slaves

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5
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Stono rebellion led to

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Imposition of harsh slave codes in SC

Was illegal to free slaves in SC

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American occupations

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  • clergymen-most respected
  • doctors were ill trained
  • lawyers were considered lazy
  • 90% of Americans farmers
  • open social ladder as opposed to England
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New England and NY engaged in commerce with England

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  • triangle trade
  • Manufacturing existed in a small scale
    • distilling, iron forges, lumbering
  • no infrastructure
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Molasses act of 1733

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First navigation act targeted at American colonies

Made it so you could only buy rum from England

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Dominant denominations 1775

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  • Anglicans (southern states required you pay taxes to Anglican Church)
  • William & Mary founded 1693
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Congregationalists

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One of the dominant denominations of 1775
Grew out of Puritan faith-Presbyterians
All NE colonies except RI
more fire and brimstone; radicalism

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In the colonies general freedom

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Of worship

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Great awakening

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  • outpouring of Protestant revivalism in Europe and America beginning in 1730s
  • counterpoint to the Enlightenment
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Effects of great awakening

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  • Religious divisions in American

- Changed Anglicans and Congregationalists

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George whitefield

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-eloquent English evangelist

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Jonathon edwards

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“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—book

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Arminians

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People who believe in free will

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Diism (pronounced– dee-ism) idk how it’s spelled

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Belief that god created world but is now hands off

Many founding fathers believed this

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New lights

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Embraced revivalist message

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Old lights

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Were established ministers of Anglican, Presbyterian, and congregational churches

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New lights vs old lights

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Led to splits in denominations
New lights made significant gains in these churches
Movement peaked by 1740s

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Significant effects of great awakening

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  • Quakers, Anglicans, and Congregationalists declined in influence
  • pres.,baptists,method. grew in numbers
  • more seminaries.
  • tended to foster religious toleration
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American education develops

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  • education generally stressed more in NE
  • Private tutoring for the wealthy in south
  • U of Pennsylvania is first nondenominational college
  • Princeton, Dartmouth, Rutgers, brown established
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Phillis Wheatley

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Former slave who was never formally educated but nevertheless published a book of poetry

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Ben Franklin

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Created franklin stove, lightning rod, and bifocal glasses

Poor Richards almanac

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John Peter Zenger

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Wrote bad things about royal governor in newspaper and was taken to court but found not guilty➡️➡️➡️freedom of the press

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How did colonists control royal governors

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Power of the purse

Colonists paid royal governors and wouldn’t pay them unless the governors did as requested

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American folkways

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  • life was drab
  • stable diet➡️meat
  • no running water or plumbing
  • muster-milita gatherings
  • quilting bees and other stuff for entertainment
  • common culture
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New France

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-used colonies for mercantilism-beavers
-befriended Huron Indians
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Coureurs de bois

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People who interacted with Indians in fur trade

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Voyageurs

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French Explorers

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Jesuit missionaries

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Very intent on converting Indians

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La Salle

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French explorer who found Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico 1682

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Antoine Cadillac

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Founded Detroit 1701

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Queen Anne’s war

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1702-1713

Acadians sent from Nova Scotia to Louisiana “Cajans”

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King George’s war

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1740-1743

Started as war of Jenkins ear

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Imperial warfare

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All wars were British and allies vs French and allies
Marked by small engagements in colonies
Louisberg captured 1745
French and British raids in NE and Canada

37
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Seven years war

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  • fought over OH river valley

- aka French and Indian war

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Fort Duquesne

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  • Washington tried to take it but was beat
  • at current day Pittsburgh
  • at intersection of 3 rivers
39
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Fort necessity

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Earthen fort built by Washington

Easily taken by the French

40
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Albany plan of union

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1754 by Ben Franklin
Essentially NATO for 13 colonies
Vetoed by British govt and colonies

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General Edward Braddock

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British
Defeated by French at ft Duquesne
His defeat opened entire colonial frontier to attack

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William Pitts

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Became Britains prime minister

Tells colonists to join fight and Britain will pay for it

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Louisberg and Quebec fall

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Ends war and French presence in North America

44
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Treaty of Paris of 1763

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Ends French and Indian war
Spain gets French land
France gets to keep it’s part of West Indies
Britain gets Florida

45
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Proclamation of 1763

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No Englishman west of Appalachian mountains

Result of pontiacs rebellion

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Pontiacs rebellion

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Worst Indian uprising of colonial period
Pontiac and the prophet
Pointed out permanent need for military presence and a solution to Indian problems

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