Chapter 5

1. Chapter 5 The Cultures of Colonial North America: 1700-1780

2. People • Williams Family • Eunice • John • A’ongonte • Father Eusebio Kino • Gaspar de Portola • Junipero Serra • Juan Bautista de Anza • Cardinal Richelieu • Cardinal Mazarin • Jesuits vs. Franciscans • Roger Williams • Charles II • John Locke • Anne Smith Franklin • Cornelia Smith Bradford • Thomas Malthus • Cotton Mather • Benjamin Harris

3. People • Benjamin Franklin • Mary Rowlandson • Jonathan Edwards • George Whitefield • William Tennent

4. Events • Deerfield Massacre • Toleration Act • Plantation Act • The Enlightenment • The Great Awakening

5. Places • San Antonio • Colorado River Valley • Gila River Valley • Baja California • San Diego • Monterey Bay • San Francisco • Los Angeles • San Gabriel • Louisbourg • Detroit • Rhode Island • Harvard • College of William and Mary • Yale • Princeton • “Log College” • College of New Jersey

6. Terms • presidios • missions • habitants • “long lots” • Congregational • General Court • “trade in strangers” • seigneurs • encomienda • Españoles and “gente de razon” • “strolling poor” • Public Occurrences both Foreign and Domestik • Boston News-Letter • Pennsylvania Chronicle

7. Terms • Almanac • Poor Richard’s Almanac • “captivity narrative” • The Sovereignty and Goodness of God • The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion • Half-Way Covenant • Saybrook Platform • Congregationalists • Calvinist theology of predestination • Arminianism • “River gods” • “spiritual coldness” • revivalists vs. old guard • New Light vs. Old Light

8. Concepts • Differences between Native, British, French, and Spanish communities • Native dependence on European goods • Creation of nomadic plains Indian lifestyle • Spanish buffer zone • Spanish use of Native Americans in California • convert and put to work • could not leave once they joined • French treatment of Native Americans • New England Society • Freemen were adult male church members • no separation of church and state • homogenous • Dichotomy of living in Puritan New England • autonomy within religious confines • Puritan treatment of other faiths

9. Concepts • Middle Colonies • diversity • immigration • religious and ethnic pluralism • The Backcountry • The South • triracial societies • role of Anglican church • religious intolerance • Chesapeake vs. Lower South • racial solidarity as a bonding force • Traditional Culture • Workday • Land • Gender Issues • Colonial acceptance of Native American treatment • Divergence of Spanish, French, and British colonial culture • Importance of immigration • Social hierarchy • Income/ Wealth inequality

10. Concepts • Centralized control of France and Spain vs. decentralized control of Britain • Royal governors • Except for Connecticut and Rhode Island • Use of assemblies in British colonies • Natural hierarchies in British society • “democracy” vs. representative government • the role of literacy • Growth of Enlightenment ideals and decline of religious devotion • Embracing of emotional religious experiences • Impact of revivals on slaves • Revivalism and politics