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| CHAPTER 3 | COLONIAL WAYS OF LIFE | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1619 |
First blacks arrive at Jamestown |
| 1635 |
Establishment of the Boston Grammar School |
| 1636 |
Founding of Harvard College |
| 1660, 1661 |
Slavery recognized in some laws of the colonies |
| 1662 |
Halfway Covenant accepted |
| 1687 |
Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy |
| 1690 |
John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding |
| 1692 |
Salem witchcraft hysteria |
| 1730s–1740s |
Great Awakening |
| 1735 |
Trial of John Peter Zenger |
| 1741 |
Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” |
| 1746 |
College of New Jersey (Princeton) founded |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Identify population patterns in the colonies and explain their impact on institutions and the development of the colonies.
- Identify and compare the chief features of the southern, New England, and middle colonies.
- Explain the land and labor systems developed in the colonies, the reasons for their development, and their long-range influences on the colonies.
- Describe the major features of social life in the colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Explain the effects of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the colonies.
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