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Day 6 Colonies come of Age

Day 6 Colonies come of Age. Warm Up: Yankee Doodle Objective: Standard: 11.1.1 and 11.3.1-2 Homework: 31-39. Yankee doodle went to town Riding on a pony Stuck a feather in his cap And called it Macaroni Chorus Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Day 6 Colonies come of Age

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  1. Day 6 Colonies come of Age • Warm Up: Yankee Doodle • Objective: • Standard: 11.1.1 and 11.3.1-2 • Homework: 31-39

  2. Yankee doodle went to town Riding on a pony Stuck a feather in his cap And called it Macaroni Chorus Yankee Doodle keep it up Yankee Doodle Dandy Mind your Manners and the steps And with the girls be handy Father and I went to Camp Along with Captain Gooding There were all the Men and boys As thick as Hasty Pudding Chorus And there was General Washington Upon a slapping Stallion Giving orders to his men I guess there were a million Chorus Yankee Doodle is a tune That comes in might handy The Enemy all run’s away At Yankee Doodle Dandy Yankee Doodle

  3. Plantations • South- Agricultural, Self Sufficient Plantations, No need for stores or markets • Shipment of goods to North and England • Cash Crops: Cotton, Tobacco, Rice, Indigo • Germans, Scots, Irish, Women could not vote, preach, or own property • Between 1619 and 1680 Africans were indentured servants. Then 1680 race based slavery. • By 1690- 13,000 African Slaves • By 1750- 200,000

  4. Middle Passage • Triangular Trade • Middle passage • Expensive • Inhumane Conditions

  5. Slavery • White views of slaves: suited for hot climate, inferior in intelligence, provided life time of service • 80-90% Field Hands • Others artisan (brick layer, black smith, carpenters) • Domestic or House slave • Rebellion (Stono Rebellion)

  6. North • Traded manufactured goods • Large immigration influx • 1700-1755 Mostly British • By 1755 ½ or more were Irish, German, Scots, Dutch …

  7. Enlightenment • Impacted Colonist • Scientific Revolution • Rousseau • Montisque • Voltaire • Benjamin Franklin

  8. Great Awakening • Puritans lost power in early 1700’s in Massachusetts • Strict Puritan Code was weakening • Leaders started religious revivals • Jonathan Edwards- people need to understand how sinful they are

  9. Jonathan Edwards- Sinners in the hands of an angry God “ The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked, His Wrath towards you burns like fire…and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment”

  10. Wife of Jonathan Edwards on George Whitfield “ What a spell he casts over an audience by proclaiming the simplest truth of the bible. I have seen upwards of a thousand people hang on his words with breathless silence broken only by an occasional half suppressed sob.”

  11. French and Indian War • Fur trade vs. Agriculture • Natives- Iroquois seen as a key to victory on both sides • First battle French defeat British and 22 year old British officer George Washington • 2nd Battle French Defeat British under Braddock • Looks like French have control

  12. Pontiac, “Red and White” “ When I go to see the English commander and say to him that some of our comrades are dead, instead of bewailing their deaths, as our French brothers do, he laughs at me and at you. If I ask anything for our sick, he refuses with the reply that he has no use for us. For all this you can see that they are seeking our ruin. Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer”

  13. Anglo relationship with Natives • William Pit is placed in charge by George II • Alliance with the Iroquois 1760 after Anglo-American victory in Quebec. • Once British gain land the Natives realize that they are harder to barging with • Ottawa Chief Pontiac defeats British • During Peace negations the British offer blankets they knew had small pox

  14. British Victory • British proclamation 1763 to end wars with natives no settlements west of Appalachians

  15. New Immigration • First major wave of non Anglo immigrants • Mostly German and Scotch-Irish • New class of immigrants as well many farmers looking for cheap land.

  16. Women in the colonies • Marriage: Very rare to stay single. Parental choice. No Divorce. • More land rights after marriage than in Europe • Limited work roles • Importance of midwives

  17. Summary Questions • Give two reasons for the use of African slaves • Describe the Triangle Trade • What cargo was brought over on the “middle passage”? • What was “awakened” during the “Great Awakening”? • Benjamin Franklin is considered to be heavily influenced by this era? • Jonathan Edwards is considered to be heavily influenced by this movement? • This Banned all settlement West of the Appalachia.

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