Devin Loh, Jordan Banker, Stephanie Alves, Danny Cancel, and Carlos

Ganzalez

Northern Colonies

Economy

*Manufacture ships and iron

*Crops and livestock include

*Wheat

* corn

*Cattle

*hogs

*Sold surplus of crops to West Indies

*Thriving industries include

*Grinding wheat

*Harvesting fish

*Sawing lumber

Urban Life

*Cities laid out like a grid

*Expansion and trade port cities grow

*Boston

*NYC

*Philadelphia

*Many people, inadequate public service

*Lack of fire wood and clean water

*Too much garbage

Influx of Immigrants

* People want to come because…

* they are fleeing economic distress

* William Penns policy of Religious freedom

* Shared Quakers thoughts on opposition to war

*Would Establish farms in frontier areas with families

*Different groups include…* Dutch NY

* Scandinavians Delaware

* Jews Newport and Philadelphia

*Not all groups always got along

* English colonists would try to get along with new groups

* Furthering the evolution of a diverse American society

Role of Women

*Extensive work responsibilities

*Few legal rights

*Religion and law kept women under husbands rule

*Puritan clergy men insisted that wives must obey their husbands

*“Wives are part of the house and family and ought to be under a husbands government: they should obey their own husbands”

Enlightenment

*Various scientists begin to wonder about/explore the world

*Ventured from Religious beliefs to Science

*Ben Franklin- Flew kite in thunderstorm with a key tied to it to prove that lightening is a form of electrical power

*Effected political thought in colonies

*Colonial leaders conclude that individuals have natural rights that the government must respect

Great Awakening

* Puritan church loses grip on society and begin to prosper

*New Massachusetts charter

* Freedom of worship

* Permits all free men to vote

* Preachers persuade colonists to rededicate themselves to god Great Awakening

* Jonathan Edwards- Member of clergy who sought to revive the commitment of the original Puritan vision

*Natives, Colonists, and Africans gather in new churches

* People believe in what they want

*Higher interest in education

* People question Britain’s authority over their lives