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Growth, Slavery, and ConflictColonial America, 1710–1763
What do the Macphaedris House murals tell us about colonial culture?
CHAPTER 3: GROWTH, SLAVERY, CONFLICT: COLONIAL AMERICA,1710-1763
CHAPTER 3: GROWTH, SLAVERY, CONFLICT: COLONIAL AMERICA,1710-1763
I. Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century
II. Enlightenment and Awakenings
III. African Americans in the Colonial Era
IV. Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality
V. War and the Contest Over Empire
Culture and Society in the Eighteenth Century
A. The Refinement of America
B. More English, Yet More American
C. Strong Assemblies and Weak Governors
The Refinement of America
Define Anglicization and give an example of an aspect of colonial life transformed by this process?
Why did new pieces of furniture like drop-leaf bookcase become popular in the eighteenth century?
The Refinement of America
Anglicization - The colonial American desire to emulate English society, including English taste in foods, customs, and architecture.
More English, Yet More American
How did changes in architecture and home furnishing reflect Anglicization and the rise of gentility in colonial America?
How does Westover Plantation illustrate the growing wealth of the colonies?
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How is slavery represented in this portrait?
Strong Assemblies and Weak Governors
Virtual representation - A theory of representation in which legislators do not serve their localities but rather the whole nation.
Strong Assemblies and Weak Governors
What accounts for the growth and power of the lower house of the assembly as one of the most powerful institutions in colonial America?
How did the Pennsylvania State House reflect the Anglicization of the colonies?
Why were colonial governors so weak?
Enlightenment and Awakenings
A. Georgia’s Utopian Experiment
B. American Champions of the Enlightenment
C.Awakening, Revivalism, and American Society
D. Indian Revivals
Enlightenment - An international philosophical movement that extolled the virtues of reason and science and applied these new insights to politics and social reform.
Great Awakening - A religious revival movement that emphasized a more emotional style of religious practice.
Enlightenment and Awakenings
How did Georgia reflect Enlightenment ideals?
What military function did Georgia serve?
Georgia’s Utopian Experiment
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Why did Georgia’s trustees wish to retain a ban on slavery?
What were the leading Enlightenment ideals, and what was the significance of America’s role in that movement? In what ways did the colony of Georgia strive to embody Enlightenment ideals?
American Champions of the Enlightenment
How does this portrait of Franklin reflect his reputation as a champion of the Enlightenment?
American Champions of the Enlightenment
What aspect of the Great Awakening encouraged democratization?
Who were the “Old Lights,” and how did their religious beliefs and practices differ from the “New Lights”?
Awakening, Revivalism, and American Society
Old Lights - Opponents of the Great Awakening who favored traditional forms of religious worship.
New Lights - Supporters of the Great Awakening and its more emotional style of worship.
Awakening, Revivalism, and American Society
Why were Moravian missionaries so successful at converting Indians?
Why was Moravian art so helpful to missionaries interested in converting American Indians?
Indian Revivals
A. The Atlantic Slave Trade
B. Southern Slavery
C. Northern Slavery and Free Blacks
D. Slave Resistance and Rebellion
E. An African American Culture Emerges Under Slavery
African Americans in the Colonial Era
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Which regions of the Atlantic world imported the most slaves?
What was tight packing?
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Middle Passage - The harrowing voyage across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas during which slaves endured meager rations and horrendously unsanitary conditions.
How did the experience of slavery differ between the upper South and the lower South?
What were the main differences between the task system and the gang system of labor?
Southern Slavery
Where did slavery have the greatest impact in the mid-Atlantic and New England?
Northern Slavery and Free Blacks
Slave Resistance and Rebellion
How did slaves resist the authority of their masters?
An African American Culture Emerges under Slavery
What evidence exists for the persistence of African cultural traits among American slaves?
A. Immigration to the Colonies
B. Regional Economies
C. New England
D. The Mid-Atlantic
E. The Upper and Lower South
F. The Backcountry
G. Cities: Growth and Inequality
H. Rural America: Land Becomes Scarce
Immigration, Regional Economies, and Inequality
Immigration to the Colonies
How did the ethnic composition of eighteenth-century America change?
Immigration to the Colonies
Indentured Servants - A form of bound labor in which servants had their passage to America paid in return for a specified number of years of service.
Regional Economies
The Mid-Atlantic
Which region of colonial America was the most culturally diverse?
The Upper and Lower South
What were the main cash crops produced by slave labor in the South?
Cities: Growth and Inequality
Why was American society becoming more unequal toward then end of the eighteenth century?
How did the scarcity of land affect typical Americans before the French and Indian War?
Rural America: Land Becomes Scarce
A. The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ground
B. The Struggle for North America
War and the Contest Over Empire
How did the French and Indian War affect colonial–Indian relations? What new problems did the British victory create for the empire?
War and the Contest for Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ground
What made the middle ground a distinctive region of colonial America?
Why did British expansion threaten the middle ground?
The Rise and Fall of the Middle Ground
Middle Ground - A cultural and geographical region of the Great Lakes in which Indians and the French negotiated with each other for goods and neither side could impose its will on the other.
The Struggle for North America
What was Williams Pitt’s new policy for North America?
What role does the Indian figure play in West’s painting?
How did the Proclamation of 1763 serve British interests?
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Why did Paxtonians demand that the Quakers create a militia?
