1. The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition
Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 5
Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century:
1701–1770
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America

3. New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders
Natural Increase and Land Distribution
Farms, Fish, and Atlantic Trade

4. Immigrants, Wheat, and Work
The Middle Colonies:
Immigrants, Wheat, and Work
German and Scots-Irish Immigrants
Pennsylvania: “The Best Poor [White] Man’s Country”

5. The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery
The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery
Slave Labor and African American Culture
Tobacco, Rice, and Prosperity

6. Unifying Experiences Commerce and Consumption
Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival
Borderlands and Colonial Politics in the British Empire

7. Chapter 5 Colonial American in the Eighteenth Century: 1701–1770
Map 5.1 Europeans and Africans in the Eighteenth Century (p. 140)
Map 5.2 Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (p. 143)
Map 5.3 The Atlantic Slave Trade (p. 152)
Map 5.4 Zones of Empire in Eastern North America (p. 165)
Figure 5.1 Colonial Exports, 1768–1772 (p. 159)
Global Comparison: Large Warships in European Navies, 1660–1760 (p. 164)
“Dummy Board” of Phyllis, a New England Slave (p. 139)
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (p. 149)