Life in the Colonies.

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Life in the Colonies

Economics South New England Middle Colonies Cash crops Slavery Tobacco Cotton Rice Indigo Slavery New England Subsistence farms Lumber Fishing (Grand Banks) Manufacturing Middle Colonies “Breadbasket”

Education New England First public school system in the Americas Based in religion Literacy very important Hornbook New England Primer

The New England Primer

The New England Primer

Education New England First public school system in the Americas Based in religion Literacy very important Hornbook New England Primer Dame School

Education: Middle and Southern Colonies Middle Colonies Generally private and religiously based Southern Colonies Private tutors Broad education Classics (Latin and Greek) and maybe French History, Philosophy, and perhaps Science Music

Education Colleges Name Denomination Colony Founded Harvard Puritan-Congregational MA 1636 William and Mary Anglican VA 1696 Yale CT 1701 College of New Jersey (Princeton) Presbyterian NJ 1746 King’s College (Columbia) NY 1754 University of Pennsylvania Non-sectarian PA 1740/49 Rhode Island College (Brown) Baptist RI 1764 Queen’s College (Rutgers) Dutch Reformed 1766 Dartmouth NH 1769

Government By England In the colonies “Salutary Neglect” Elected assemblies (i.e. House of Burgesses) main governing power “Power of the Purse” (In)equality Landownership required to vote and hold office Religious requirements in some colonies More equal than Parliamentary representation New England towns Town meetings

The Imperial System Mercantilism The Trade and Navigation Acts Ships had to be English Stopovers in England Enumerated goods

Triangular Trade New England  Europe and Africa Rum Other goods Europe  Africa and the Americas Manufactured goods Africa  Caribbean and North America Slaves Middle Passage Caribbean  North America Sugar and molasses

Triangular Trade

Dominion of New England 1686 James II Combined the New England colonies, New York, and New Jersey into the Dominion of New England Edmund Andros 1688 – Glorious Revolution  1689 – Andros expelled

New England and King Philip’s War Major population increase after English Civil War King Philip Chief Metacom Wampanoags 1675 – “Praying Indian” killed by Philip’s tribe True cause war: LAND Colonists won Superior numbers Mohegan alliance Bloody tactics

Southern Society and the Indians Landed gentry – Plantations; Tidewater region Yeoman farmers – subsistence farmers; Piedmont region Sir William Berkeley Limited voting rights Limited expansion into Indian lands Trade agreements Did not want trouble

Bacon’s Rebellion Nathanial Bacon 1676 Militia

Salem Witch Trials

John Peter Zenger Libel (not slander) Freedom of the press

Great Awakening Early 18th Century. First major religious revival Pietism George Whitefield Jonathon Edwards Sinners in the hands of an Angry God.

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