Chapter Three: Society and Culture in Provincial America

1. Chapter Three: Society and Culture in Provincial America

2. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population • Immigration and Natural Increase America in 1700

3. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Indentured Servitude • Social Problems of Indentured Servitude

4. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Indentured Servitude • Social Problems of Indentured Servitude • Growing Reliance on Slavery

5. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Birth and Death • High Death Rate in the South The Non-Indian Population of North America, 1700-1780

6. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Birth and Death • High Death Rate in the South • Toward a Balanced Sex Ratio

7. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Medicine in the Colonies • Midwifery

8. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Medicine in the Colonies • Midwifery • “Humoralism”

9. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Women and Families in the Colonies • Early Marriages

10. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Women and Families in the Colonies • Early Marriages • Stable New England Families

11. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population     • Women and Families in the Colonies • Early Marriages • Stable New England Families • Patriarchal Puritanism

12. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population  • The Beginnings of Slavery in English America • The “Middle Passage” Slave Ship (Library of Congress)

13. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population  • The Beginnings of Slavery in English America • The “Middle Passage” • Surging Slave Population African Population of British Colonies, 1620-1780

14. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population  • The Beginnings of Slavery in English America • The “Middle Passage” • Surging Slave Population • Ambiguous Legal Status

15. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population  • The Beginnings of Slavery in English America • The “Middle Passage” • Surging Slave Population • Ambiguous Legal Status • Race-Based “Slave Codes”

16. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population  • Changing Sources of European Immigration  • Religious Refugees Immigrant Groups In Colonial America

17. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Population  • Changing Sources of European Immigration  • Religious Refugees • Scotch-Irish Immigrant Groups In Colonial America

18. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies   • The Southern Economy • Boom-and-Bust Tobacco Economy Selling Tobacco(American Heritage)

19. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies   • The Southern Economy • Boom-and-Bust Tobacco Economy • The South’s Cash-Crop Economy Selling Tobacco(American Heritage)

20. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies    • Northern Economic and Technological Life • Colonial Artisans and Entrepreneurs

21. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies    • Northern Economic and Technological Life • Colonial Artisans and Entrepreneurs • Peter Hasenclever’s Ironworks

22. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies    • The Extent and Limits of Technology • Persistent Colonial Poverty

23. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies    • The Extent and Limits of Technology • Persistent Colonial Poverty • Myth of Colonial Self-Sufficiency

24. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies • The Rise of Colonial Commerce • Obstacles of Trade 

25. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies • The Rise of Colonial Commerce • Obstacles of Trade  • An Emerging Merchant Class The “Triangular Trade”

26. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • The Colonial Economies • The Rise of Consumerism • Class Differences and Consumerism

27. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society • Social Mobility 

28. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • Masters and Slaves on the Plantation • Precarious Plantation Economy   Landscape of Mulberry plantation, South Carolina, (Library of Congress)

29. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • Masters and Slaves on the Plantation • Precarious Plantation Economy • Slave Culture   African Population as a Proportion of Total Population, c. 1775

30. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • Masters and Slaves on the Plantation • Precarious Plantation Economy • Slave Culture • Stono Rebellion

31. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • The Puritan Community • Close-Knit Puritan Communities The New England Town: Sudbury, MA, 17th century

32. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • The Puritan Community • Close-Knit Puritan Communities • Participatory Democracy

33. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • The Puritan Community • Close-Knit Puritan Communities • Participatory Democracy • Communal Strains and Tensions

34. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • The Puritan Community • Close-Knit Puritan Communities • Participatory Democracy • Communal Strains and Tensions • Salem Witch Trials

35. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • Cities • Colonial Cities Wealth Distribution in Colonial Cities, 1687-1771

36. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Patterns of Society   • Cities • Colonial Cities • Centers of Industry and Education

37. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments • The Pattern of Religions • Multiplying Religious Denominations

38. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments • The Pattern of Religions • Multiplying Religious Denominations • Persistent Anti-Catholicism

39. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments • The Pattern of Religions • Multiplying Religious Denominations • Persistent Anti-Catholicism • Anti-Semitism

40. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments • The Pattern of Religions • Multiplying Religious Denominations • Persistent Anti-Catholicism • Anti-Semitism • Declining Piety

41. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • The Great Awakening • Appeal of the Great Awakening

42. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • The Great Awakening • Appeal of the Great Awakening • “New Lights” and “Old Lights”

43. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • The Enlightenment • “Natural Law”

44. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • Literacy and Technology • Poor Richard’s Almanac “A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.” - Poor Richard’s Almanac Poor Richard’s Almanack(New York Public Library)

45. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • Literacy and Technology • Poor Richard’s Almanac • Publick Occurrences

46. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • Education • Growth of Public Education

47. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • Education • Growth of Public Education • Colonial Higher Education

48. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • The Spread of Science • Growing Interest in Science

49. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • The Spread of Science • Growing Interest in Science • Smallpox Inoculation

50. Chapter Three:Society and Culture in Provincial America • Awakenings and Enlightenments   • Concepts of Law and Politics • Powerful Colonial Legislatures