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  1. The people and environment of early America
    1. Sources of immigration
    2. British migrants: four streams
    3. Seaboard environment
      1. Indian attitudes toward environment
      2. European
      3. Environmental changes
    4. Demographic developments
      1. High birthrate
      2. Low death rate
    5. Women in colonies
      1. Assumed inferiority
      2. Work
        1. Domestic sphere
        2. Greater opportunities
      3. Short supply
  2. The economy and society of the southern colonies
    1. Agriculture
      1. Important crops
      2. Nature of the headright system
    2. Labor
      1. Need for labor
      2. Diverse African roots
      3. Indirect route to colonies
      4. Plantation demand for slaves
      5. Rebellion
      6. Religion
    3. The gentry elite
    4. The Anglican church in the South
  3. New England colonial life
    1. Towns
    2. Homes and family life
    3. The economy and commerce
      1. Farming
      2. Fishing
      3. Trade
        1. Balance of trade problem
        2. Shortage of hard money
    4. Puritan religion
      1. Attitudes toward clothing, drink, and sex
      2. Relationship to the Church of England
      3. The covenant theory
      4. Cohesiveness of Puritan society
    5. Strains within the Puritan consensus
      1. Effects of individual accountability to God
      2. Development of the Half-Way Covenant
      3. Witchcraft hysteria in Salem
        1. Events of 1692
        2. Explanation of hysteria
  4. The middle colonies
    1. Influences of New England and the South
      1. Crops and commerce
      2. Land policies
    2. Ethnic mix
      1. Quakers
      2. Germans
      3. Scotch-Irish
  5. Colonial cities
    1. Population
      1. Five major ports
      2. Classes
    2. Urban problems
    3. The urban web
      1. Transportation
      2. Taverns
      3. Postal service
      4. Newspapers
  6. Intellectual trends
    1. The Enlightenment
      1. Impact of scientific revolution
      2. Effects on established beliefs
    2. The American Enlightenment and Benjamin Franklin
    3. Education in the colonies
    4. The Great Awakening
      1. Causes of the religious revival
      2. Roles of Edwards and Whitefield
      3. Scope of the revival movement
      4. Effects of the Great Awakening

 

 

Chronology return to the top of the page
1619 - Africans arrive in Jamestown
1636 - Harvard College founded
1647 - Massachusetts Bay requires school in every town
1662 - Half-Way Covenant accepted
1687 - Newton announces theory of gravity
1692 - Witchcraft hysteria at Salem Village
1693 - College of William and Mary founded
1701 - Yale College founded
1730s–1740s - Great Awakening
1732 - First public stagecoach line opens
1735 - Trial of John Peter Zenger
1739 - Stono slave uprising in South Carolina

 

 

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