Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Period 2: Colonial Society
- Structure/hierarchy
- plantation owners
dominated wealth in South
- convicts/paupers
involuntarily shipped
to Americas
- slavery
- clerical profession
most honored
- lawyers/doctors not
trained well or respected
much
- Economy
- tobacco, wheat in
bread colonies
- fishing, shipbuilding,
sailing in N colonies
- lumber & naval
storage supplies
highly valued
- Triangular Trade
(Columbian Exchange)
- sustained colonial economy
- mercantilistic
policies favored
British
- Molasses Act
- prevented colonies from
trading with any other
countries except GB
- made bc Americans
had started trading w/
others bc GB was
unable to take in all
their products
- Infrastructure
- roads dangerous,
inefficient
- reliance on rivers &
water bodies
- beginning of intercolonial
post system
- taverns/towns began forming
around road/water ways
- mingling of classes
- The Great Awakening
- Rebirth of renewed religious vigor
- response to Americans'
growing secular &
political ties in religion
- old lights: orthodox clergy
who were sceptical fo
emotions in religion
- new lights: supported Great Awakening,
credited w/ rebirth of American piety
- Arminianism
- free will determines
fate, not predestination
- Jonathan Edwards,
George Whitefield
- JE: "Sinners in the Hands
of An Angry God"
- large outdoor revivals,
traveling preachers,
- lessening divisions between sects
- preachers
cross-denominational
- more slaves converting to
christanity
- Salutary Neglect & Its End
- england hadn't really been
governing the colonies
directly
- except Molasses act, Navigation acts
- colonies developed their
own forms of self-gov
- Ex: Mayflower compact,
House of Burgesses in VA,
MD bicameral legis
- French & Indian War--- heightened
rivalry and contact between GB
and colonists