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| CHAPTER 3 | COLONIAL WAYS OF LIFE | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1619 |
First blacks arrive at Jamestown |
| 1636 |
Founding of Harvard College |
| 1662 |
Half-Way Covenant accepted |
| 1687 |
Newton’s theory of gravity |
| 1692 |
Witchcraft hysteria at Salem |
| 1735 |
Trial of John Peter Zenger |
| 1730s–1740s |
Great Awakening |
| 1741 |
Jonathan Edwards’s sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” |
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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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