ApCh 5 Notes.doc

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Ch 5 Notes

British Colonialism: 32 colonies in North

America, our thirteen were not the largest,

most populous, or most wealthy why did

they want to revolt and few of others did (orever did)?

Populationx3 in ! years most of who

are "orn in the colonies, #r $ohnson

complains of growth rate

%ur people are young and never lived in

&urope, often their parents had never lived

in &urope don't thin of themselves as

ritish

*our true +cities existed- .hiladelphia, New

/or, oston, 0harleston, none greater than

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any other people, Africans, ermans,

4wiss, #utch, *rench, 4cots, 5rish, and manydifferent religions

Lack the identity of being English and

Anglican, really many are neither only

5!" ha#e English ancestry

$hy had these people came here% 6hile

many had come to mae a profit, many had

also came "ecause they were upset with the

0rown or were persecuted "y the

mainstream ritish (some had even fought

in re"ellions against the 0rown, or at least

their parents had)7

&ther factors:

New &ngland's antagonismwith the

0rown'ilitarismof the frontier

Europeani(ation8growth of upper

class


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rowing amount of poor

English officialsin visi"le places

(tax collectors, 9udges, military, etc)Penal coloni(ation

)rade la*s"enefiting &ngland

(resale re:uired through ritish

companies)

0onstant constraints in trade

;he +self made man image4hift in triangle trade, no longer the

0olom"ian exchange, instead the

American exchange)a#ern talesand transportation lead

to exaggerated rumors of ritish

oppressionCouriersoften read dispatches

some of which are unflattering legal

and military criti:ues)a+es going to churchesnot of their

faithPress and Ne*spapers create

their own source of information-

ritish regulation forced many to


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create underground pu"lications or

clever code words and phrases to

poe fun at ritish however;ory82Na#al storessold to other nations

;rained "ase of military leaders

uge tradewith *rench colonies in

0anada, ississippi, and 0ari""ean

.mugglers and rum runnersafter

.arliament pass olasses Act- Americans

have twisted pride in this sort of +sticing it

to the manPolitical .trife: often royal

governors were second class or

worse no"ility that weren't trusted


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anywhere else, "ut often the "est

would still struggle with

Colonial legislatures:upperhouse(


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5f every man is alone in his

responsi"ility to od, then he must

"e literate and educated;end to "e middle upper class

rich enough to afford college, "ut not

go to &urope

4lowly "ecome hot"eds of asonry

and Bevolutionary thought

Pro#incial Culture

=now artists names and what they

produce8wrote- page >> C D11

Politics

.age D12, read up on it

Colonial 1olk*ays

;ae notes on this entire section D13

D1E


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