facts Flashcards
The Seven Years War led to…
A doubling of great Britain’s National debt: by 1764 debt was £130 million - greater by a fifth of the annual output of the nations economy
In 1763 British North America ran from _____ in the North to Florida in the south
Hudson Bay
Pre-1763 most colonists lives to the east of _____
the Appalachian mountains
What were the New England colonies?
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
What were the middle colonies?
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
What were the southern colonies?
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Orgy
Between 1700 and 1763 the population of the thirteen colonies increased….
eightfold from 250,000 to reach 2 million
Between 1750 and 1770 the thirteen colonies’ population expanded from….
1.25 million to over 2.3 million - an almost 100 per cent increase
What were the three reasons for population growth?
- A high birth rate
- A low death rate
- Immigration
Why was there a high birth rate?
The average American woman had a family of seven children
How many colonists lives in the South?
Half
How many colonists lives in the middle colonies?
A quarter
How many colonists lives in New England
About a quarter
How big was the population of Virginia by 1770
500,000 inhabitants
What were the five towns of any size (all of which are seaports)
- Philadelphia
- New York
- Boston
- Newport
- Charleston
What was the population of the 5 seaports by 1760
73,000 (only 3.5 percent of the total population)
How many people from Europe and Africa migrated to the thirteen colonies between 1700 and 1763?
400,000 (less than a fifth of the eighteenth century migrants were English)
What were the largest group of immigrants?
Scots-Irish Protestants from Ulster (about 150,000 left for economic reasons)
How many Germans settled?
65,000: mainly peasants from the Rhineland
Between ______ of all white immigrants during the colonial period were indentured Servants
A half and two-thirds
By 1763 there were _____ slaves, one in six of the overall population
350,000
______ of African Americans lived in the South
90 per cent
By 1760 only about ____ of the American population was of English stock
Half
What are the Proprietary colonies
Colonies in which the crown had vested political authority in the hands of certain families: the Calvert’s (in Maryland) and the Penns (in Pennsylvania and Delaware). The proprietor who ran he colony appointed the governor.