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What did it mean to be English?
Limited LandLimited OpportunityGrowing PopulationProtestant - Church of EnglandOther Protestant Faiths less welcome
(Puritans) On-going and Growing Rivalry with FranceLimited Monarch w/ Powerful ParliamentStill a strong aristocracy – upper classGrowing poor class
What Does It Mean to be an American?
Freedom Individuality JusticeOpportunityLibertyEqualityMake Money Casual Independent
RELIGIOUS – THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PERSONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE
ECONOMIC - HOW YOU MEET BASIC NEEDS – FOOD, CLOTHING,SHELTER, WEALTH
POLITICAL- GOVERNMENT, POWERWHO MAKES THE DECISIONS?
SOCIAL - HOW GROUPS OF PEOPLE ARE ORGANIZED – RACE, CLASS, REGION ETC.
Four Ways to Look at This
RELIGIOUS
New England
• Mass: Puritans
• Rhode Island: Quakers
Middle Colonies
• Penn:Quakers
• Penn: Mennonites
• Md: Catholics
South
• Carolinas: Huegonots
• Everywhere: Church of England
• Georgia: Varies
ECONOMIC
NewEngland
• Fishing• Logging• Ship
Building• Trade• Small
Farms• Diversified • Economy
MiddleColonies
• Grain Belt• Great Trade• Location• Rivers/Bays• Great SOil
South
• Single Crop Economy
• Trade with England
• Slave Labor
ECONOMIC
NewEngland
• Fishing• Logging• Ship
Building• Trade• Small
Farms• Diversified • Economy
MiddleColonies
• Grain Belt• Great Trade• Location• Rivers/Bays• Great SOil
South
• Single Crop Economy
• Trade with England
• Slave Labor
SOCIAL
NewEngland
• Community• We not Me• Family Based• Equality• Merchant
Elite• More Urban
MiddleColonies
• Religious and Social Tolerance
• Indians Treated well
• Smaller Families
• Frequent Remarriage
South
• Planter Elite• Poor White
Farmers• Slavery• Rural
• INCREASED RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
• FROM THE MEETING HOUSE TO THE COUNTING HOUSE
• 2 N D GENERATION PILGRIMS LOOSEN PURITAN VALUES –MAKE $
• THEN THE GREAT AWAKENING! !( AN ATTEMPT TO GO BACK TO THE OLD
WAYSBUT REALLY BASED ON INDIVIDUALITY,
FREEDOM, EQUALITY
RELIGIOUS CHANGES
• GET OVER THE SURVIVAL STAGE
•GROWTH!! ALL AROUND
•AVAILABILITY OF LAND PROMOTES WEALTH
•SLAVE CULTURE STRONGER
•SOUTH HAS CLOSE TIES WITH ENGLAND
ECONOMIC CHANGES
• ALL COLONIES VALUE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
• AMERICANS TURNED ON TO ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS – NATURAL RIGHTS
(L IFE ,L IBERTY, PROPERTY) , CONSENT OF GOVERNED, RIGHT TO REBEL , THINK FOR
YOURSELF)
•SOUTH MORE COOPERATIVE WITH ROYAL GOVERNORS
POLITICAL CHANGES