BECOMING AMERICAN:MINI SLIDE SHOW

What did it mean to be English?

Limited LandLimited OpportunityGrowing PopulationProtestant - Church of EnglandOther Protestant Faiths less welcome

(Puritans) On-going and Growing Rivalry with FranceLimited Monarch w/ Powerful ParliamentStill a strong aristocracy – upper classGrowing poor class

What Does It Mean to be an American?

Freedom Individuality JusticeOpportunityLibertyEqualityMake Money Casual Independent

RELIGIOUS – THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PERSONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE

ECONOMIC - HOW YOU MEET BASIC NEEDS – FOOD, CLOTHING,SHELTER, WEALTH

POLITICAL- GOVERNMENT, POWERWHO MAKES THE DECISIONS?

SOCIAL - HOW GROUPS OF PEOPLE ARE ORGANIZED – RACE, CLASS, REGION ETC.

Four Ways to Look at This

RELIGIOUS

New England

• Mass: Puritans

• Rhode Island: Quakers

Middle Colonies

• Penn:Quakers

• Penn: Mennonites

• Md: Catholics

South

• Carolinas: Huegonots

• Everywhere: Church of England

• Georgia: Varies

ECONOMIC

NewEngland

• Fishing• Logging• Ship

Building• Trade• Small

Farms• Diversified • Economy

MiddleColonies

• Grain Belt• Great Trade• Location• Rivers/Bays• Great SOil

South

• Single Crop Economy

• Trade with England

• Slave Labor

ECONOMIC

NewEngland

• Fishing• Logging• Ship

Building• Trade• Small

Farms• Diversified • Economy

MiddleColonies

• Grain Belt• Great Trade• Location• Rivers/Bays• Great SOil

South

• Single Crop Economy

• Trade with England

• Slave Labor

SOCIAL

NewEngland

• Community• We not Me• Family Based• Equality• Merchant

Elite• More Urban

MiddleColonies

• Religious and Social Tolerance

• Indians Treated well

• Smaller Families

• Frequent Remarriage

South

• Planter Elite• Poor White

Farmers• Slavery• Rural

• INCREASED RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

• FROM THE MEETING HOUSE TO THE COUNTING HOUSE

• 2 N D GENERATION PILGRIMS LOOSEN PURITAN VALUES –MAKE $

• THEN THE GREAT AWAKENING! !( AN ATTEMPT TO GO BACK TO THE OLD

WAYSBUT REALLY BASED ON INDIVIDUALITY,

FREEDOM, EQUALITY

RELIGIOUS CHANGES

• GET OVER THE SURVIVAL STAGE

•GROWTH!! ALL AROUND

•AVAILABILITY OF LAND PROMOTES WEALTH

•SLAVE CULTURE STRONGER

•SOUTH HAS CLOSE TIES WITH ENGLAND

ECONOMIC CHANGES

• ALL COLONIES VALUE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

• AMERICANS TURNED ON TO ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS – NATURAL RIGHTS

(L IFE ,L IBERTY, PROPERTY) , CONSENT OF GOVERNED, RIGHT TO REBEL , THINK FOR

YOURSELF)

•SOUTH MORE COOPERATIVE WITH ROYAL GOVERNORS

POLITICAL CHANGES

•NO ARISTOCRACY DEVELOPS IN AMERICA

THERE ARE NO EXTREMES – RICH OR POOR

AMERICA IS EQUALIZING

MORE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND THOUGHT

WOMEN HAVE MORE FREEDOM IN AMERICA THAN ENGLAND

SLAVE CULTURE STRENGTHENS

SOCIAL CHANGES