1. US History The Colonies Come of Age California standard11.1.1 And 11.32

3. Vocabulary ► Triangular Trade ► Middle Passage ► Enlightenment

4. Vocabulary ► Benjamin Franklin ► Great Awakening ► Jonathan Edwards

5. Vocabulary ► French and Indian War ► William Pratt ► Pontiac ► Proclamation of 1763

6. ► Both Northern and Southern Colonies are prosperous but are beginning to question British authority ► These regional differences have survived in the culture and politics of the modern U.S.

7. Plantation Colony in the South ► There were cities, but the region was prominently self sufficient plantations. ► Many existed on rivers and shipped directly to the North. ► Slaves provided the much needed labor

8. Middle Passage ► Triangular trade: Transatlantic trading network. ► Middle Passage: the middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle. ► Treatment of the enslaved Africans was often brutal.

9. Africans Cope in Their New World ► 80-90% worked the fields ► 10-20% were domestic slaves or artisans ► They kept many of their traditions such as music, dance and story telling

10. Commerce Grows in the North ► North was primarily thriving commercial cities and diverse economic centers ► Port cities grew ► Farms produced cash crops ► Less labor intensive

11. The Enlightenment ► 1700’s an intellectual movement that began in Europe as the Great Awakening ► In the colonies it was a religious movement that influenced people’s thinking ► The Enlightenment was a movement in which philosophers valued reason and scientific methods

12. Benjamin Franklin ► Embraced the notion of obtaining truth through experimentation and reason ► Famous experiment with the kite Enlightenment Enlightenment ► Ideas spread through pamphlets and books ► Literacy high in New England

14. Enlightenment ► Thomas Jefferson reasoned that human beings are born with certain natural rights that the government must respect ► Ideas lead to colonists questioning the British rule

15. Great Awakening ► Early 1700’s Puritans had lost some of their influence ► The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals aimed at resoring the intensity and dedication to the early Puritan church

16. Religious Revivals ► Jonathan Edwards ► George Whitefield ► 1730s-1750s restored religious belief ► People also challenged authority of established churches ► Great Awakening and Enlightenment caused people to question traditional authority. ► Important in leading to the American Revolution

17. French and Indian War ► French Empire in The US expanding ► Wars between France and England spread to he colonies ► French colonists were mostly young men and Catholic priests. ► Fighting began in the area of the Ohio Valley the Indians sided with the French ► William Pitt : lead British ad colonists to victory over the French ► British claimed Canada and all of land East of Mississippi river

18. Change for Native Americans ► Lost a lot as a result of the French and Indian War ► Pontiac: Chief of the Ottawa nation ► British officers presented diseased blankets ► Proclamation of 1763 established a line a line that the British could not cross.