Essential Question:

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• Essential Question
• In what ways were the Southern and Northern
  British colonies different from each other?
• Warm-Up Question
• What impact did Britains policies of salutary
  neglect mercantilism have on the colonies?

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Regional Differences Among the British Colonies
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The Economies of the Colonies

• The British colonies produced a variety of
  profitable materials were populated by a
  variety of diverse peoples
• By the 1700s, the differences among the
  Southern Northern colonies led to long-term
  differences among these societies

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Northern Colonies
Southern Colonies
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Slavery in the Southern Colonies

• Slavery in the Southern colonies was far more
  common than in the Northern colonies
• Cash-crop agriculture, like tobacco rice,
  required workers
• By 1660, fewer indentured servants were coming to
  America
• 80-90 of Southern slaves were field workers,
  most on plantations

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Slavery in the Southern Colonies

• Slave culture in the South
• Slaves came from a variety of places in West
  Africa had a variety of languages cultures
• Music dance were used to maintain their African
  culture
• Families were common, but marriage was not
  recognized
• Slave religion often blended African rituals with
  Christianity

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The Slave Population

• Slavery led to resistance
• Runaway slaves were common
• Sabotaging of field tools intentionally slowing
  down the work were common techniques of slave
  resistance
• In 1739, in South Carolina 150 slaves led the
  Stono Rebellion against white plantation owners

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Social Mobility

• Northern colonies offered greater social mobility
  than the South
• Social status was less dependent upon ownership
  of land
• Numerous professional trade professions in
  cities
• Benjamin Franklin represented opportunities in
  colonial society He used scientific innovation
  political writing to gain world fame

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The Great Awakening
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Decline in Religious Devotion

• By the 1700s, American colonists saw a decline in
  religious devotion
• Church sermons were seen by many as cold
  impersonal
• In the 1730s 1740s, the Great Awakening was a
  series of revivals in which of people experienced
  religious conversion in response to gifted
  preaching

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The Great Awakening

• Preachers like Jonathan Edwards George
  Whitefield were the most popular evangelists
• Used fire passion to encourage people to
  examine their eternal destiny (New Light)
• Preached sermons to 1,000s in large camp
  revivals
• Encouraged questioning of established churches

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The Great Awakening

• The Great Awakening impacted all the colonists
  led to
• New universities were formed to educate New
  Light preachers
• Contact among scattered colonists in different
  regions (1st national American event)
• Decline in Puritan Anglican faiths rise of
  Methodists, Baptists, other denominations

Brown, Rutgers, Princeton