Day 6 Colonies come of Age

• Warm Up: Yankee Doodle

• Objective:

• Standard: 11.1.1 and 11.3.1-2

• Homework: 31-39

Yankee DoodleYankee doodle went to townRiding on a ponyStuck a feather in his cap And called it Macaroni

ChorusYankee Doodle keep it upYankee Doodle DandyMind your Manners and the stepsAnd with the girls be handy

Father and I went to Camp Along with Captain GoodingThere were all the Men and boys As thick as Hasty Pudding

Chorus

And there was General WashingtonUpon a slapping StallionGiving orders to his men I guess there were a million

Chorus

Yankee Doodle is a tune That comes in might handyThe Enemy all run’s away At Yankee Doodle Dandy

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

Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade• Middle passage• Expensive• Inhumane Conditions

                         

   

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)

North

• Traded manufactured goods

• Large immigration influx

• 1700-1755 Mostly British

• By 1755 ½ or more were Irish, German, Scots, Dutch …

Enlightenment

• Impacted Colonist• Scientific Revolution• Rousseau• Montisque • Voltaire• Benjamin Franklin

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

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”

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.”

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

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”

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

British Victory

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

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.

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

Summary Questions

1) Give two reasons for the use of African slaves

2) Describe the Triangle Trade

3) What cargo was brought over on the “middle passage”?

4) What was “awakened” during the “Great Awakening”?

5) Benjamin Franklin is considered to be heavily influenced by this era?

6) Jonathan Edwards is considered to be heavily influenced by this movement?

7) This Banned all settlement West of the Appalachia.