Provincial America

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Provincial America the Struggle for a Continent

• Chapter 4

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Progress in the Colonies 18th century

• Population doubled every 25 yrs
• - need for colleges, doctors, craftsmen, etc
• - wealthy settlers landowners
• - mansions
• - Colonies began to modernize

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Early Harvard (Cambridge, Mass)

• Founded in 1636,Harvard is the oldest institution
  of higher learning in the United States

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College of William Mary

• Located in Virginia, William and Mary was founded
  in 1693 by a Royal Charter issued by the King
  William III Queen Mary II of England. It has
  educated U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson, James
  Monroe, and John Tyler

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Other Colleges

• 1746- Princeton (New Jersey)
• 1740- University of Pennsylvania
• 1754- Columbia University (New York)
• 1764- Brown University (R.I)
• 1766- Rutgers, New Jersey
• 1769- Dartmouth (New Hampshire)

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Expansion of the Colonies

• Immigration at all time high in colonies
• - 1730- 650k settlers
• - 1775- over 1 million
• Indian concern

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Slaves in the South

• Slave trade reached peak during 18th century
• - 90 of slaves to southern colonies
• - 70 of S. Carolinas pop by 1720
• - created old south (slave plantations)
• - south- dependent on slaves
• - treatment of slaves in south

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Back Country

• Life in mountain regions of the Carolinas
• - farming hunting
• - limited govt control
• - use of alcohol clash with Indians

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Age of Enlightenment

• asserted that human knowledge would improve
  society

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World of Print

• Impact of printing press
• William Bradford
• - 1st printer in Philadelphia (1680)
• Boston (8 printers by 1740)
• Printing sparked American Enlightenment

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Benjamin Franklin

• 1732- Franklins Pennsylvania Gazette
• best edited paper in America

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Benjamin Franklin

• Intellectual debate almost non-existent
• - Franklins Junto Society (1727)
• - American Philosophical Society
• Franklins inventions

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Poor Richards Almanac
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Conflicts in the Colonies
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Conflict w/ Spain

• Spanish (FL) offered freedom to slaves
• Stono Rebellion (S.C.)
• - largest slave revolt in colonies history
• - stole weapons / 25 killed

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Georgia The failure of an Enlightened Utopia

• King George II (1727-60)
• - founded in 1732
• - populate with Englands worthy poor
• - protection S. Carolina
• - laws of Georgia / Savannah
• - population slump
• - became another S. C. by 1752

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North American settlements of Britain France
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French Indian War(1756-1763)

• Settlements (p 119)
• English desire to expand westward
• conflicts w/ France (Ohio Valley)
• - French Indian trade
• Virginia sends Washington

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French Indian War (continue)

• Washingtons orders (1754)
• Albany Congress (align w/ Iroquois)
• - Franklins political cartoon (p 120)

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French Indian War (continue)

• 1756- war officially declared
• British gather force of 60,000
• British make peace w/ Indians by 1758
• - promise of land

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End of war

• Spains neutrality
• British concentrate on New France
• - 3 pronged war p124
• Treaty of Paris ends war in 1763
• - Britain acquired all of North America east of
  the Mississippi except for New Orleans (p 131)

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conclusion

• France gives up American settlements
• Britain now dominant power in North America
• Spain ceded Florida
• British proclamation line
• Angers Indians