1. Colonial America: British Folkways Form the Cultural Foundation

2. What the British Found
Vast Land
Climate and resources
Continuous frontier

3. What the British Brought
The political and legal system
The class system
Cultural traits
Land organization

4. Albion’s Seed
Folkways—cultural patterns of customs, mores, manners, usages, & morals
Four distinct British cultures:
the Virginians
the Puritans
the Quakers
the Scots-Irish

5. The Virginians: An Empire
Built on Smoke

6. Jamestown1607

7. John White’s Depiction of Native American Indians

8. The Puritans

9. The Quakers

10. The Scots-Irish

11. Colonial Expansion & Conflict 17th & 18th Centuries

13. Colonial Economic Development & Slavery
New England and Mid-colonies economies
Southern plantation economy
Establishment of slavery
The slave trade
Adoption of slavery in the colonies
The creation of chattel slavery

14. Colonial Women’s Place
Origins of beliefs about gender:
morally inferior
intellectually inferior
naturally inferior
Colonial women and English common law
Cultural gender folkways

15. Evangelistic Protestantism: An American Religion
Primary Characteristics
God & the individual
the Written Word
Pluralism & absence of clericalism
Sense of mission & Protestant work ethic
Revivalism: the “born again” experience

16. Summary 1. 2. 3. 4.

17. The Political Foundation: Evolution and Revolution
“Those who give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
---Benjamin Franklin

18. The Roots of American Independence
The English Civil War & the Glorious Revolution
Colonial expansion: population, migration, the consumer revolution, & colonial government
The Great Awakening & Enlightenment ideals
The French & Indian (Seven Years) War
& Pontiac’s War

19. Mid-18th c. Colonial Trade

20. Allies & Enemies:
the French
the Indians
the British
the Americans

22. The British Imperial Crisis: The End of “salutary neglect”

23. The American-British Conflict
The essential issue of sovereignty
New taxes for government revenues
Admiralty courts, navy inspections & writs
of assistance (search warrants)
British army in colonial cities
Prohibition of colonial paper money
Favoritism in the tea trade

24. The American Response The Stamp Act & the Sons of Liberty
Forms of protest & opposition
The Continental Congresses
Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence

25. The American Revolution, 1775-1782

26. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”---Thomas Paine
The creation of a new country’s government
State constitutions
Republicanism
Natural rights
Limited government

27. The Articles of Confederation

28. Western Land Claims by the States

29. Essential Achievements of the Revolutionary Generation
Won war for colonial independence
Established of 1st nation-sized republic
Created the 1st completely secular state
Placed sovereignty in multiple sources of authority (state and national governments—federalism)
Created political parties as institutions to
channel ongoing debate and political conflict
Reconciled sovereignty of the individual and
sovereignty of the collective, “the people”

30. Summary 1. 2. 3. 4.