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A Diverse Society

A Diverse Society. Chapter 1 , Section 5 SOL 3. Population Growth. Large families 7+ children in families!!!!! Arrival of immigrants Import of African slaves. Status of Women. Married women little to no legal status Single women have more rights

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A Diverse Society

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  1. A Diverse Society Chapter 1, Section 5 SOL 3

  2. Population Growth • Large families • 7+ children in families!!!!! • Arrival of immigrants • Import of African slaves

  3. Status of Women • Married women little to no legal status • Single women have more rights • Women have the most rights in the Chesapeake region…. Because their were fewer women than men!

  4. Medicine • Many diseases/illnesses that killed colonists • Typhoid fever, malaria, cholera, diarrhea, flu, etc • Childbirth • Used herbal medicines • Doctors bled patients

  5. Immigrants • Pennsylvania • German – known as the Pennsylvania Dutch • Scotch-Irish • African slaves to the South- work force

  6. Great Awakening • A religious “revival” or movement • A response to the Enlightenment, which challenged the authority of the church • Jonathan Edwards- Massachusetts- “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” • George Whitefield- popular Anglican minister • Birth of evangelical religions- Methodists and Baptists • Early to Mid 1700s

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