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What were the Characteristics of Northern Colonies?

Explore the prosperous economy, social diversity, and intellectual characteristics of the Northern Colonies in the U.S., including urban life, slavery, ethnic diversity, and the impact of the Enlightenment and Great Awakening.

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What were the Characteristics of Northern Colonies?

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  1. What were the Characteristics of Northern Colonies? U.S. History and Government Br. Siraj 7 January 2020

  2. Economy of the North • Very Prosperous • Diversified • Variety of Crops • Livestock • Trading • Manufacturing • Cities/Urban Life • New York, Philadelphia, Boston • Properly planned • Entertainment facilities

  3. Social Characteristics • Social Diversity More than South • Non English/Welsh Immigrants: Dutch, Germans, Scots and Scot-Irish • Africans • Slavery • Slavery Existed, but not like the south • Slaves had legal rights, unlike south • Cruel treatment existed. No law to protect them. • Rebellion occurred sometimes

  4. Answer the Following Two Questions • How commerce and urban center grew in the North? • How did Northern Society become diverse?

  5. Social Characteristics • Women • Extensive work-responsibilities • Few legal rights • Could not enter into contract or buy & sell property • Witchcraft trial • 1692 in Salem

  6. Answer the Following Questions • What kind of economy grew in the North? Why? • What were the characteristics of city life in the North? • What were the positive and negative impacts of ethnic diversity in the colonies? • What were the underlying reasons for Salem Witch-hunt?

  7. Intellectual Characteristics • Influence of Enlightenment • Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson are few who were influenced by Enlightenment • Great Awakening • 1691 Charter ended Puritan monopoly over people’s lives • Religious Revival Led by Jonathan Edwards during 1730s & 1740s • Non English people became church members • New Churches (Methodists, Baptists) grew. • New Educational Centers were born

  8. What is enlightenment and what are its two main underlying ideas? • What is Great Awakening? Who is its leader? How did it change people’s beliefs?

  9. Homework Questions1, 2, 3 & 5 on Page 84 Good Luck!

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