1. COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Presentation by: Jennifer Pekarthy For 8 th grade US History: Unit Lesson on Colonial America

2. Population Growth

3. Urban Population Growth

4. Implications of Population Growth English settlement creeps westward True cities begin to develop First generations of true Americans emerge  Classification as Englishmen is questionable  Unique culture begins to take flight

5. Eighteenth Century Architecture

7. Inside the Home

8. Social Structure-Family Large male-female ratio Almost all women married by 20 Women bore 8 children (5 likely didn’t survive childhood)

9. Economy South  Tobacco dominates  Plantations frequently have over a dozen slaves  SC and GA grow rice (requires heavy labor=more slaves required)  Less industrialized than the North

10. Southern Plantation

11. Economy North  Less fertile ground (=no cash crops) results in more commercial activity  Self-sufficient farming develops  Iron-working, weaving, fishing, printing, lumbering, etc…

12. Iron-working in the 1700s

13. Map of Colonial America 1689 – 1783

14. Life in the Cities New York and Philadelphia were the largest Tiny by modern standards Marketplace for regional farmers Distribution of income varied greatly Led culturally and in education

15. Additional Resources For more information on the people; places; and events of Colonial America, go to the Early American Digital Library at: http://www.earlyamericanimages.com http://www.earlyamericanimages.com