1. SSUSH2 The student will trace the ways that the economy and society of British North America developed.
a. Explain the development of mercantilism and the trans-Atlantic trade.
b. Describe the Middle Passage, growth of the African population, and African-American culture.
c. Identify Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism.
d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening.

2. Mercantilism Economic System
Colonies exist for the good of the mother country; all its resources ultimately belong to mother country
Only so much gold/silver/resources in the world-more colonies=more wealth/power
England
America

3. Mercantilism Major goal:
Acquisition of gold, silver and other raw materials from colonies which are brought back to home country and turned into finished products to be sold
Exports more valuable than your imports

5. Trans-Atlantic Trade Dominated by the British
Navigation Acts (1660 & 1696):
Required colonists to buy British goods only
Raw materials were to be sold only to Britain
Manufacturing items in colonies was banned

6. b. The “Middle Passage” and Slavery

7. Triangle Trade Trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas
What was traded?
Europe → Africa/Americas Finished Goods (textiles, rum, guns, etc)
Africa → Americas Slaves
Americas → Europe Raw Materials (cotton, tobacco, lumber, sugar)

8. Middle Passage
Middle Passage = from Africa to ‘New World’ – Caribbean, South America or North America
Slave Trade in Two Minutes
12.5 million slaves were sent to North America; 10.7 survived the Middle Passage
European slave traders and African elites led the slave trade on Africa’s west coast; driven by cash crops

10. Mutiny and rebellion were common (Amistad)
Investors and roots of insurance

11. Growth of African Population in America
Grew quickly
Why?
English had taken over slave trade
No economic benefit to indentured servants
Easier to control
Remember…

12. African-American Culture
Distinct and new culture merged old world and new world practices amongst
Different in each region
Some Common Themes:
Christianity
Encouraged by the Great Awakening
Music → Gospel
Unique languages: Gullah, Pidgin English
Merging of African & European cultures

13. Warm Up #10
Why were people drawn to Great Awakening preachers? What were the long term impacts of the Great Awakening?

14. Benjamin Franklin "If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing."
~ B. Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

15. Benjamin Franklin ( )
Multi-talented, entrepreneur/businessman and statesman
Symbol of social mobility & individualism
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16. Benjamin Franklin Scientist Inventor Statesman Printer Philosopher
Electricity
Charted the Gulf Stream
Scientist
Inventor
Statesman
Printer
Philosopher
Economist
Bifocals
Lightning Rod
Franklin Stove
“Founding Father”
Signed: Declaration, Constitution
Pennsylvania Gazette
Poor Richard's Almanack
1st Public Library in America
Hard Work → wealth

17. Franklin as a symbol… Of Social Mobility
Social mobility: Ability of a person to move up in social status in a given society
Franklin as a symbol…
Of Social Mobility
Born in Boston in 1706, 15th of 17 children
Age 12 – apprentice to brother (James) a printer
Ran away to Philadelphia
Worked odd jobs as printer/clerk
Founded a literary society
Founded Pennsylvania Gazette in 1728
Founded Poor Richard’s Almanack in 1733
Born poor
Hard work
Becomes successful!

18. How did Franklin become successful?
Individualism: Ability of a person to be his own person – to find success through himself
Franklin as a symbol…
Of individualism
WHY?
The "American Dream"
How did Franklin become successful?

19. Today’s work period: Great Awakening Posters
IANB will be collected end of class TOMORROW for STANDARD 1. I will not check interactions beginning at ‘mercantilism’
Cornell notes with questions between terms and summaries
Summaries – Virginia, New England, Middle Colonies, Impact of geography on the different regions
For every page of notes, one interaction on the left. MAKE SURE you have variety. Make it colorful and appealing.
Have your organization tabs set up – see a peer’s list if you lost yours!
Put graded assignments and handouts in the proper tab – not in IANB

20. Warm up #9
Identify two goals of mercantilism and how this system was enforced on the colonies by Great Britain.

21. d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening.

22. The Great Awakening
Series of religious revivals that swept through America in the mid-1700’s
Major Figures:
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield

23. Whitefield Preaching. Woodcut.

24. God chooses man's path. Freedom Not Free The Great Awakening
Major Emphasis:
Free will > Predestination
Democracy > Monarchy
Great Awakening
Tradition
Man chooses his path.
God chooses man's path.
Freedom
Not Free

25. Significance Creates a fertile mind for Revolutionary principles
More emotional religious experience – appealed to poor and slaves
*Emphasizes the individual and individual will over an outside force
Democratized religion – destroyed Puritan ‘theocracy’