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Lecture 2A. Chapters 5, 6, 7 ( Pageant , 13 th ed.) APUSH, 2012. “The people, even to the lowest ranks, have become more attentive to their liberties, more inquisitive about them, and more determined to defend them than they were ever before known or had occasion to be.” - John Adams, 1765.
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Lecture 2A Chapters 5, 6, 7 (Pageant, 13th ed.) APUSH, 2012
“The people, even to the lowest ranks, have become more attentive to their liberties, more inquisitive about them, and more determined to defend them than they were ever before known or had occasion to be.” - John Adams, 1765
Scots-Irish in America Regulator movement in the Carolinas Paxton Boys in Pennsylvania
“They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race now called Americans have arisen. … I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations.” -Frenchman Michel-Guillaume JeandeCrevecoureur (1735-1813), writing of the diverse population in the American colonies in 1770.
Trade • Enumerated Goods • Lumber • Tobacco • Rice • Indigo • Furs To Englandfrom Colonies
Manufactured Goods • Furniture • Clothing • Colonials hadnot factories. From England to Colonies
Jonathan Edwards American leader of the first Great Awakening
“[It is] a reasonable thing to fright persons away from hell.” - Jonathan Edwards
Legacy of the Enlightenment A mixed bag … from the perspective of Great Awakening religious leaders (Pictured: John Locke, top; Isaac Newton, bottom)
George Whitefield A celebrity in the American colonies
Est. of American colleges Yale: est. 1701 – Originally the Collegiate School Yale: est. 1701 College of William and Mary: est. 1693 Brown University: est. 1764 – Originally the College of Rhode Island Princeton University: est. 1746 – Originally the College of New Jersey
Free Press in America The Zenger case, 1735
A most famous printer Benjamin Franklin
18thc. Physicians [To many colonists, a physician] was "a money-grubbing pretender, a swindling quack"—or, as Ben Jonson put it, "a turdy-facy, nasty-paty, lousy-fartical rogue."
Colonial legislatures Conflicts with the Crown
Turn & Talk About It What is most surprising or interesting to you about life in 18th century colonial America? What do you wonder about? … Please share with an elbow partner.
King Louis XIV New World ambitions
Fur trade facts • From 1675 to 1685, the average annual production of beaver pelts was about 89,500 pounds (weight); that number rose to 140,000 pounds from 1685 to 1687. Two years later, 160 canoes arrived in Montréal with a cargo of about 800,000 pounds of beaver pelts. However inexhaustible the source, the French market could only absorb 40,000 to 50,000 pounds of pelts per year. Source: Virtual Museum of New France, http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/explore/virtual-museum-of-new-france/people/les-coureurs-des-bois/les-coureurs-des-bois12
George Washington … A world war launcher
1763 Treaty of Paris France --> lost her Canadian possessions, most of her empire in India, and claims to lands east of the Mississippi River. Spain -->got all French lands west of the Mississippi River, New Orleans, but lost Florida to England. England -->got all French lands in Canada, exclusive rights to Caribbean slave trade, and commercial dominance in India.
Turn & Talk About It Contemplate the changes in the North American map as a result of the French and Indian War. If you were an American colonist, what would you expect to be different about life in America after 1763? … Please share with an elbow partner.
