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1 Colonies Become more Self-Sufficient
Setting the Stage… Colonies Become more Self-Sufficient

2 In the NORTH… Commerce and Farming Immigrants Ports Manufactured goods
indentured servants Ports Manufactured goods

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4 In the SOUTH… Plantation Economy Plantation system Resistance Slaves
Triangle Trade Middle -Passage Plantation system (self –sufficient) Resistance

5 The Enlightenment New ideas Hobbes Locke Montesquieu Rousseau

6 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)

7 RELIGIOUS AWAKENING Great Awakening – Born Again
Breaks with old traditions (Puritan / Anglican Revivals, traveling preachers New denominations: Baptists Methodists and others

8 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?

9 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???

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