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COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Presentation by: Jennifer PekarthyFor 8th grade US History: Unit Lesson on Colonial America
Population Growth
Urban Population Growth
Implications of Population Growth
English settlement creeps westward
True cities begin to develop First generations of true
Americans emergeClassification as Englishmen is questionable
Unique culture begins to take flight
Eighteenth Century Architecture
Eighteenth Century Architecture
Inside the Home
Social Structure-Family
Large male-female ratioAlmost all women married
by 20Women bore 8 children (5
likely didn’t survive childhood)
Economy South
Tobacco dominatesPlantations frequently have over a dozen slaves
SC and GA grow rice (requires heavy labor=more slaves required)
Less industrialized than the North
Southern Plantation
EconomyNorth
Less fertile ground (=no cash crops) results in more commercial activity
Self-sufficient farming develops
Iron-working, weaving, fishing, printing, lumbering, etc…
Iron-working in the 1700s
Map of Colonial America1689 – 1783
Life in the Cities New York and Philadelphia
were the largest Tiny by modern standards Marketplace for regional
farmers Distribution of income varied
greatly Led culturally and in education
Additional Resources
For more information on the people; places; and events of Colonial America, go to the
Early American Digital Library at: http://www.earlyamericanimages.com