1. Chapter 3
Section 4

2. Family Life in the Colonies
The average colonial woman gave birth to seven children.
This was a time period of great population growth.
Women had few, if any, rights in early colonial times.
Disease was a problem for many without proper sanitation and medicine.

3. Immigrants in the Colonies
German immigrants came to Pennsylvania looking for religious freedom.
The Pennsylvania Dutch became some of the areas most prosperous farmers.
The Dutch also spread into Virginia and the Carolinas.
Many of the Scot-Irish began settling in the frontier west.

4. Immigrants in the Colonies
A small group of Jews came and settled in what is today New York City.

5. Africans in the Colonies
The large number of Africans in the colonies started a new culture for these people.
These people became increasingly under oppression in the form of whippings and beatings.
The slaves would fight back by running away or purposely slowing work down.

6. The Enlightenment
It stressed an emphasis on logic and reasoning know as rationale.
John Locke was an important figure during this time. He argued that people had natural laws to obey and people weren’t born sinners and the Church said.
Baron Montesquieu stated that three separate branches of the government were needed to have checks and balances.

7. Great Awakening This was a movement to become more devout to God.
Revivals became a popular during this time.
Jonathan Edwards preached sermons of damnation and how people needed to come to God.
Baptists in the South became very popular with the poor.

8. Great Awakening
Both the Enlightenment and Great Awakening stressed individualism that supported America’s political independence.