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Colonial Challenges and Changes in Early American Societies

This overview examines the diverse issues faced by colonial America, including economic growth and regional disparities. It explores the burgeoning commercial economy and trading networks, alongside the rapid development of class hierarchies and gender roles, highlighting the stark contrast in women's lifestyles. The narrative delves into conflicts arising from inadequate representation and justice systems in backcountry regions, leading to movements like the Paxton Boys and the Regulator movement. Additionally, it touches on cultural transformations influenced by the Great Awakening and tensions within plantation systems against a backdrop of increasing resistance.

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Colonial Challenges and Changes in Early American Societies

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  1. A Motley Crew Colonies Seeking Some Order

  2. Regional Diversity • Seaports: • Booming commercial economy • Trading network expansive • Building construction reminiscent of European design • Class hierarchy develops quickly • Women experience very different lifestyle • Struggles • Close proximity allowed disease to spread quickly • Fire disasters continual concern • At the mercy of safe sea activity

  3. Cont…. • Backcountry • Folks being pushed out of urban center • Immigrants, landless Englishmen • German, Scots-Irish • Isolation brings about a new culture • Conflict soon arises • Representation unsatisfactory • Justice system nil

  4. Backcountry Response • Paxton Boys • Pennsylvania 1763 • Frustration over support against Native Americans • Took aim against Indians, marched to Philadelphia to demonstrate • Benjamin Franklin enters in as mediator • The Regulators • The Carolina’s vigilante group • Justice system not making its way to the S. Carolina backcountry • Law into their own hands • Brutal and aggressive

  5. Cont…. • N. Carolina frustrated with corruption and taxes • Took on militia, lost, but had an effect • Social and cultural division becoming more clear

  6. Boundary Conflicts • Green Mountain Boys 1760’s • New York vs. Vermont Farmers • Crown gave land to New York, already owned by Ethan Allen and friends • Guerrilla style tactics implemented

  7. Friction on the Farm • Plantation owners struggle with slave resistance increased • Slave communities establishing • Resistance in all forms • Violent revolts: 1739 Stono Rebellion, put down, but fear set in

  8. The Great Awakening • Religious fervor takes a new look • Many younger generations chaffing under Puritan authoritarianism • 1733 Jonathan Edwards • Power of God and depravity of man • Beginning of the fire and brimstone era • Generation gap highly recognizable • Transformation takes hold

  9. Cont… • 1739 George Whitefield • Young, charismatic Englishman • Took tour of the colonies, preaching throughout • Releases religious emotionalism • Great success in the south and frontier regions

  10. Revolution on the Horizon? • How to manage the colonies? • Being English in America had its perks • Despite frustrations of governing hiccups • Parliament indifferent to America, except when it came to money • Being English in America was about to change

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