1. Day 6 Colonies come of Age
Warm Up: Yankee Doodle
Objective:
Standard: and
Homework: 31-39

2. Yankee Doodle Yankee doodle went to town
Riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his cap
And called it Macaroni
Chorus
Yankee Doodle keep it up
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Mind your Manners and the steps
And with the girls be handy
Father and I went to Camp
Along with Captain Gooding
There were all the Men and boys
As thick as Hasty Pudding
And there was General Washington
Upon a slapping Stallion
Giving orders to his men
I guess there were a million
Chorus
Yankee Doodle is a tune
That comes in might handy
The Enemy all run’s away
At Yankee Doodle Dandy

3. Plantations
South- Agricultural, Self Sufficient Plantations, No need for stores or markets
Shipment of goods to North and England
Cash Crops: Cotton, Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
Germans, Scots, Irish, Women could not vote, preach, or own property
Between 1619 and 1680 Africans were indentured servants. Then 1680 race based slavery.
By ,000 African Slaves
By ,000

4. Middle Passage Triangular Trade Middle passage Expensive
Inhumane Conditions
                            

5. Slavery
White views of slaves: suited for hot climate, inferior in intelligence, provided life time of service
80-90% Field Hands
Others artisan (brick layer, black smith, carpenters)
Domestic or House slave
Rebellion (Stono Rebellion)

6. North Traded manufactured goods Large immigration influx
Mostly British
By 1755 ½ or more were Irish, German, Scots, Dutch …

7. Enlightenment Impacted Colonist Scientific Revolution Rousseau
Montisque
Voltaire
Benjamin Franklin
To Europeans Ben Franklin was the most famous of Americans. He was a famous publisher by the age of 16 when he moved from Boston to Philadelphia. He was an amateur scientist that proved that lightning was a form of electricity and that it was not two opposing forces.

8. Great Awakening Puritans lost power in early 1700’s in Massachusetts
Strict Puritan Code was weakening
Leaders started religious revivals
Jonathan Edwards- people need to understand how sinful they are

9. Jonathan Edwards- Sinners in the hands of an angry God
“ The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked, His Wrath towards you burns like fire…and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment”

10. Wife of Jonathan Edwards on George Whitfield
“ What a spell he casts over an audience by proclaiming the simplest truth of the bible. I have seen upwards of a thousand people hang on his words with breathless silence broken only by an occasional half suppressed sob.”

11. French and Indian War Fur trade vs. Agriculture
Natives- Iroquois seen as a key to victory on both sides
First battle French defeat British and 22 year old British officer George Washington
2nd Battle French Defeat British under Braddock
Looks like French have control

12. Pontiac, “Red and White”
“ When I go to see the English commander and say to him that some of our comrades are dead, instead of bewailing their deaths, as our French brothers do, he laughs at me and at you. If I ask anything for our sick, he refuses with the reply that he has no use for us. For all this you can see that they are seeking our ruin. Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer”

13. Anglo relationship with Natives
William Pit is placed in charge by George II
Alliance with the Iroquois 1760 after Anglo-American victory in Quebec.
Once British gain land the Natives realize that they are harder to barging with
Ottawa Chief Pontiac defeats British
During Peace negations the British offer blankets they knew had small pox

14. British Victory
British proclamation 1763 to end wars with natives no settlements west of Appalachians

15. New Immigration First major wave of non Anglo immigrants
Mostly German and Scotch-Irish
New class of immigrants as well many farmers looking for cheap land.

16. Women in the colonies
Marriage: Very rare to stay single. Parental choice. No Divorce.
More land rights after marriage than in Europe
Limited work roles
Importance of midwives

17. Summary Questions Give two reasons for the use of African slaves
Describe the Triangle Trade
What cargo was brought over on the “middle passage”?
What was “awakened” during the “Great Awakening”?
Benjamin Franklin is considered to be heavily influenced by this era?
Jonathan Edwards is considered to be heavily influenced by this movement?
This Banned all settlement West of the Appalachia.