1. 3-3: The Commercial North

2. Northern Colonies Produced several cash crops per farm
Developed many thriving commercial industries (lumber, fishing, ship building)
Developed a powerful merchant class
Had numerous cities (Boston, NYC, Philadelphia)
Faced a wide variety of social problems (fire, disease, overcrowding, lack of clean water)
Had more ethnic, religious, and national groups represented among their population

3. Southern Colonies Produced single crops of rice or tobacco
Was primarily a farming economy
Fewer merchants, since the economy was not diversified
Had fewer social problems because it was less urban
Had a uniform population

4. 1. What kind of movement was it?
The Enlightenment
An intellectual movement
The Great Awakening
A religious movement

5. 2. Who were it’s key figures?
The Enlightenment
Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield

6. 3. What ideas did it stress?
The Enlightenment
The natural world is governed not by miracles or chance, but by fixed mathematical laws
Truth can be obtained by reason, observation and experimentation
Individuals have natural rights which governments must respect
The Great Awakening
A return to Puritanical values
Rededication to God
The need for salvation
The importance of education
Questioning of established authority
The importance of the individual

7. 4. What did it encourage people to do?
The Enlightenment
To use experimentation and observation as tools to make discoveries about the natural world
To rely on reason
To read and learn
To question traditional authority including that of the British Monarchy
The Great Awakening
To rededicate themselves to God
To join organized churches
To found colleges for training ministers
To read the Bible
To question traditional authority