Chapter 5&6 Flashcards
City dwellers
4% of population lived in NYC, Boston, or Philadelphia
Poverty and disease
Small minority were wealthy-war profiteers
By 1775 English population was
With an average age of
2.5 million
16 years old
Lots of scots Irish and German immigrants
Only major city in the south around 1775
Charleston
Farmers
Most colonials were small subsistence farmers
“Poor whites” in the south
Land shortage in New England
Large families worked on farms
Slaves
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
Stono rebellion led to
Imposition of harsh slave codes in SC
Was illegal to free slaves in SC
American occupations
- clergymen-most respected
- doctors were ill trained
- lawyers were considered lazy
- 90% of Americans farmers
- open social ladder as opposed to England
New England and NY engaged in commerce with England
- triangle trade
- Manufacturing existed in a small scale
- distilling, iron forges, lumbering
- no infrastructure
Molasses act of 1733
First navigation act targeted at American colonies
Made it so you could only buy rum from England
Dominant denominations 1775
- Anglicans (southern states required you pay taxes to Anglican Church)
- William & Mary founded 1693
Congregationalists
One of the dominant denominations of 1775
Grew out of Puritan faith-Presbyterians
All NE colonies except RI
more fire and brimstone; radicalism
In the colonies general freedom
Of worship
Great awakening
- outpouring of Protestant revivalism in Europe and America beginning in 1730s
- counterpoint to the Enlightenment
Effects of great awakening
- Religious divisions in American
- Changed Anglicans and Congregationalists
George whitefield
-eloquent English evangelist
Jonathon edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—book
Arminians
People who believe in free will
Diism (pronounced– dee-ism) idk how it’s spelled
Belief that god created world but is now hands off
Many founding fathers believed this
New lights
Embraced revivalist message
Old lights
Were established ministers of Anglican, Presbyterian, and congregational churches
New lights vs old lights
Led to splits in denominations
New lights made significant gains in these churches
Movement peaked by 1740s
Significant effects of great awakening
- Quakers, Anglicans, and Congregationalists declined in influence
- pres.,baptists,method. grew in numbers
- more seminaries.
- tended to foster religious toleration
American education develops
- 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
Phillis Wheatley
Former slave who was never formally educated but nevertheless published a book of poetry
