1. Development of British North America on America’s Economy and Society SECTION 4
Mercantilism:
Trans-Atlantic trade:
Middle Passage:
Great Awakening
Growth in African American population
Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism

2. COLONIAL SYSTEM MERCANTILISM
All the colonies developed economies that allowed settlers to survive and prosper but each colony differed in its religious, cultural and political customs

3. WHERE: along the Atlantic Ocean
13 COLONIES
WHERE: along the Atlantic Ocean
WESTERN BOUNDARY: for Southern & Middle: Appalachian Mountains
WHO: Founded by Great Britain between
PURPOSE:
economic opportunities, political freedoms, religious freedoms to escape persecution
REGIONS:
NEW ENGLAND: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode  Island, Connecticut
MIDDLE (MID-ATLANTIC): New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
SOUTHERN: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Caroline, Georgia

5. Transatlantic Trade
Across the Atlantic
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage: middle
portion of 3 way voyage
Load ships with rum, cloth and goods to trade for slaves
MIDDLE PASSAGE: slaves transported to New World
Sell slaves, buy tobacco and other American goods and go back to Britain

7. Growth of African Population
Cash crops: tobacco and later cotton
Workers: plant, grow, harvest crops
##’s: majority of slaves were in Southern colonies because of agriculture based economies
Growth of African Population

8. GROWTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
Music
Religion
Dance
Language
Culture: basket weaving
Pottery making

9. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Founding Father
Social Mobility and individualism: born into poor family from Boston, MA
Printer Apprentice at 12; 17
ran away and sailed to London
to learn about business
Returned to Philadelphia in 1726 as experienced printer, writer, businessman
84 years: world’s leading authors, philosophers, scientists, inventors, and politicians

10. GREAT AWAKENING: ?? authority
1730’s religious revival
in New England
Puritans lose grip on society; membership declines
Brotherly love: NA & AA join churches, slavery evil
COLLEGES THAT CAME OUT OF THE Great Awakening: Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, Columbia

12. QUESTIONS: 1ST English settlement in North America?
What was the City Upon a Hill?
1st French settlement in North America?
What was the Middle Passage?
What was the 1st representative government in the NW?
Describe & name the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
What was the ultimate purpose of the 13 colonies for Great Britain?
Name and describe the Triangular trade routes.
Benjamin Franklin: why are the terms social mobility and individualism associated with him?
Name 3 colleges that came out of the Great Awakening: