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Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Colonial Population Regional Differences Common English heritage Indentured Servitude/African Slavery Demographics of colonists Mortality Rates Women's Rights/Authority Slave Trade – Middle Passage – Slave Codes Changing immigration patterns
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Colonial Economies Agriculture – Cash Crops – Tobacco in Chesapeake – Rice and Indigo Home Industries and Craft Enterprises – Shipbuilding – Iron Works – Timber Commerce – Navigation and Iron Acts – Triangular Trade – Black Market
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Patterns of Society Abundant land and a small population in colonies Substantial social mobility Southern Colonies – Few large plantations – Most modest with few/no slaves – Dispersed settlement – Effect of slavery on households – Plantation Gentry Slave Culture – Mix of African traditions and European customs – Extended kinship networks – Slave reactions to slavery – Stono Rebellion – Purchase of freedom/Learning craft or trade
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Patterns of Society New England Colonies – The Town – Religious and Social covenant – Town Meeting – Compact Settlement – No Primogeniture Salem Witchcraft Trials – 1692 – Adolescent girls at heart of hysteria – The accused Colonial Cities – Markets – Inequality of wealth – Social ills vs. Intellectual centers
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The Great Awakening Sought to stem decline in religion in 1730's and 1740's Evangelists John and Charles Wesley George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards New Lights vs. Old Lights
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Enlightenment in Colonies The Enlightenment Education – Public schools – Literacy rates – Colleges Harvard William and Mary Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard's Almanack – Scientist Cotton Mather Other Enlightenment Thinkers
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Enlightenment and Government Legal System – Execution and imprisonment avoided – John Peter Zenger Freedom of Expression Self-Government – Colonial assemblies – Governor's power limited
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