Rachel Mrs. Branin 5 th grade
Ben Franklin founds Philadelphia’s first newspaper. He established the first fire department, police force, public library, and Philadelphia’s first college now called the University of Pennsylvania.
Trail of John Peter Zenger. The Zenger trial is a remarkable story of a divided Colony, the beginnings of a free press.
Stone slave rebellion in South Carolina. In the rebellion, 30 colonists were killed. The rebellion might have been caused by the Security Act, which happened a month earlier.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney successfully grows indigo. Southern plantations grew tobacco, rice, and indigo, which they sold to buyers in England and elsewhere in America.
The colonies have 250,000 enslaved persons. However, in the north there weren’t as many enslaved persons.
More Europeans arrive in the colonies. By 1770, more than 2 million people lived and worked in Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies. Colonists from all over Europe were welcomed in the Middle Colonies. Europeans who settled in the Middle Colonies included: Dutch, German Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Swedish, and English immigrants.
Philadelphia is the largest colonial city. The population had grown to 35,000. It was also a city that had a lot of tolerance in the area.
The Colonial Economies Agriculture People did agriculture, which is also known as the business of farming, in the early 1700s. So many people did agriculture, mostly to feed their families. Industry Industries were used to compete with the English. An example is shipbuilding. Shipbuilding was a very important industry back then. Free Enterprise Shipbuilding took a step forward to having a free enterprise which is when people can start any business they want and what to do.
Colonial Governments Assembly An assembly is a lawmaking body. Assemblies were elected in every colony by They made a lot of important laws there. Legislation Legislation is the making or passing of laws. The colonists did legislation to decide how tax money would be spent. Delegates Delegates are members of an assembly who were either wealthy landowners, lawyers, or merchants.