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a.) Population i. Blacks (1) half the whole population (2) forced immigrants ii. cities (3) Piladelphia, New York, Boston and Charleston
 * 1.)** **Conquest by the cradle**

a) Germans i) Fled from persecution ii)Many Lutherans iii.)Came to Pennsylvania b) Scot-Irish i) March of the Paxton boys (1) Protested the Quaker’s leniency towards Indians ii) Regulator movement (1) Insurrection against eastern denomination of colonies affairs
 * 2.)** **A mingling of the races**

a) Rich class i) Made money as military suppliers ii) Plantation owners boosted by the slaves b) Poor classes i) widows and orphans ii) Swelled by flow of indentured servants iii) Paupers and convicted forced to come to the Americas iv) Black slaves
 * 3.)** **The structure of colonial society**

a) ministers had most honored profession b) Physicians poorly trained i) Medical school opened but most were apprentices to other docters ii) Feared epidemics (1) Smallpox (2) Diphtheria c) Lawyers were not respected
 * 4.)** **Clerics, physicians and jurists**

a) Agriculture i) Maryland and Virginia grew tobacco ii) Middle colonies produced grain b) Fishing c) Manufacturing d) Lumbering e) Trade i) Important in New York and Pennsylvania ii) Demanded products from the British (1) Population growth was slow in England (2) Traded with West Indies (3) Parliament passed molasses act to stop trade
 * 5.)** **Workaday America**

a) Roads in terrible condition b) Taverns built c) Intercolonial Postal system established
 * 6.)** **Horse power and sail power**

a) Anglican church i) Official faith of southern colonies and part of New York ii) College of William and Mary (1) Trained clerics for Anglican church iii) Supported king because received b) Congregational church i) Faith of New England colonies (1) Except Rhode island (2) Grown from puritan church ii) Revolution against the king was supported c) Religious toleration i) Made progress ii) Still Anti-Catholic (1) Less severe because of low population
 * 7.)** **Dominant denominations**

a) Calvinism doctrines threatened i) Worshipers believe will be saved through good deeds ii) Jacobus Arminius (1) Free will determines fate b) Great awakening i) Started in Northampton, Massachusetts ii) Jonathon Edwards (1) Believed salvation by good deeds was foolish (2) But needed to be dependent on god iii) George Whitefield c) Effects i) Congregationalists and Presbyterians split ii) Increased missionary work (1) Among Indians (2) Slaves iii) New light centers created
 * 8.)** **The great awakening**

a) Education i) Important in New England ii) Bible studies b) College education regarded highly
 * 9.)** **Schools and colleges**

a) Art i) Not many artists ii) Artists had to go to England to do studies b) Architecture was copied from the Old World c) Literature i) Like art it was mediocre ii) Phillis wheatley (1) A slave girl (2) Wrote poems d) Benjamin Frnaklin i) Wrote the //Poor Richard’s Almanac// ii) Scientist iii) Inventor
 * 10.)** **A provincial culture**

a) John peter Zenger case i) Charged with attacking the governor of New York through his newspaper ii) Found innocent iii) Paved way for freedom of press
 * 11.)** **Pioneer presses**

a) Colonial government i) Different types of colonies (1) Royal (2) Proprietary (3) Self-governing ii) Most had Two house legislative body (1) Upper house chosen by the king, proprietor, or people depending on type of colony (2) Lower house chosen by people iii) Governors (1) Governors were paid by colonial legislatures (2) Instead of by independent sources b) Local Government i) County government predominated in south ii) Town meetings were held in New England (1) Upper class did not want to give voting right to everyone (2) But getting the requirements wasn’t as hard
 * 12.)** **The great game of politics**

a) Food plentiful b) Lacked basic comfort
 * 13.)** **Colonial folkways**

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