Chapter Three: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Alan Brinkley,
AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e
Chapter Three: Society and
Culture in Provincial America
Chapter Three:
Society and Culture in Provincial America
America in 1700
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Chapter Three:
Society and Culture in Provincial America
Introduction
Diverging Societies
The Colonial Population
Immigration and Natural Increase
– Indentured Servitude
Origins
Realities of Indentured Servitude
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Population
– Birth and Death
Exceptional Longevity
in New England
More Balanced
Sex Ratio
– Medicine in the Colonies
Midwives
The Non-Indian Population of North America,
1700-1780
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Chapter Three:
Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Population
– Women and Families in the Chesapeake
Male Authority Undermined
Greater
Independence in
the South
Revival of Patriarchy
Virginia and Carolina, 1638
(Royalty-Free / CORBIS)
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Chapter Three:
Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Population
– Women and Families in New England
Male-Dominated New England
The Patriarchal Puritan
Family
New England, 1755
(Royalty-Free / CORBIS)
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Population
– The Beginnings of Slavery in British America
The Middle Passage
Growing Slave Population
Uncertain Status
Slave Codes
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Slave Ship
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(Library of Congress)
African Population of British
Colonies, 1620-1780
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Population
– Changing Sources of
European Immigration
Huguenots and
Pennsylvania Dutch
Scotch-Irish
Immigrant Groups
In Colonial America
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Economies
Rapid Population Growth
– The Southern Economy
Tobacco
Selling Tobacco
(American Heritage)
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Economies
– The Southern Economy
Tobacco
Indigo
– Northern Economic and Technological Life
More Diverse Agriculture in the North
Saugus Ironworks
Extractive Industries
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Economies
– The Extent and Limits of Technology
Myth of Self-Sufficiency
– The Rise of Colonial Commerce
Shortage of Currency
Triangular Trade
Emerging Merchant Class
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The “Triangular Trade”
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The Colonial Economies
– The Rise of Consumerism
Growing Consumerism
Social Consequences
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Patterns of Society
Social Mobility
– The Plantation
Vagaries of the
Plantation Economy
Stratified Southern
Society
Landscape of Mulberry
plantation, South Carolina,
(Library of Congress)
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Patterns of Society
– Plantation Slavery
Slave Culture
Stono Rebellion
African Population as a
Proportion of Total Population,
c. 1775
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Patterns of Society
– The Puritan Community
Patterns of Settlement
Puritan Democracy
Population Pressure
Generational Conflict
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
The New England Town: Sudbury, MA, 17th century
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Patterns of Society
– The Witchcraft Phenomenon
Salem Witch Trials
The Witch House,
Salem, Massachusetts
(Royalty-Free / CORBIS)
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Patterns of Society
– Cities
Growth of Colonial Cities
Commercial and Cultural Importance
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Awakenings and Enlightenments
– The Pattern of Religions
Roots of Religious Toleration
Anti-Catholicism
Jeremiads
– The Great Awakening
Old Lights and New Lights
– The Enlightenment
Traditional Authority Challenged
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Chapter Three:
Society and Culture in Provincial America
Awakenings and Enlightenments
– Education
High White Literacy Rates
Liberal Curricula
– The Spread of Science
Smallpox Inoculation
– Concepts of Law and Politics
Colonial Governments
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Where Historians Disagree:
The Origins of Slavery
Slave Ship
(Library of Congress)
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Society and Culture in Provincial America
Where Historians Disagree:
The Witchcraft Trials
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Chapter Three:
Society and Culture in Provincial America
Patterns of Popular Culture:
Colonial Almanacs
Poor Richard’s Almanack
(New York Public Library)
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