Colonies Become more Self-Sufficient Setting the Stage… Colonies Become more Self-Sufficient
In the NORTH… Commerce and Farming Immigrants Ports Manufactured goods indentured servants Ports Manufactured goods
In the SOUTH… Plantation Economy Plantation system Resistance Slaves Triangle Trade Middle -Passage Plantation system (self –sufficient) Resistance
The Enlightenment New ideas Hobbes Locke Montesquieu Rousseau
AGE of REASON… Observation Rational thought Discovery of Natural laws (Copernicus, Galileo, Newton) Breaks with old Religious traditions (divide still today…i.e. evolution & Global warming debates)
RELIGIOUS AWAKENING Great Awakening – Born Again Breaks with old traditions (Puritan / Anglican Revivals, traveling preachers New denominations: Baptists Methodists and others
IMPACT Awakening: Emotionalism Enlightement: stressed Reason Both question traditional authority Stressed importance of individual How still a factor in politics today? Essay: What similarities to the Enlightenment and Awakening perspectives to you see in Politics today?
French and Indian War Between British and French Proxy War Over turf and product Begin to question British strength New gains in Territory (opportunities for expansion and resources) New conflicts with Native Americans Iroquois collapse Settlers invading lands Fought back Used biological warfare Sound familiar???