Development of British North America on America’s Economy and Society

SECTION 4

– Mercantilism:

– Trans-Atlantic trade:

– Middle Passage:

– Great Awakening

– Growth in African American population

– Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism

COLONIAL SYSTEMMERCANTILISM

All the colonies developed economies that allowed settlers to survive and prosper but each colony differed in its religious, cultural and political customs

13 COLONIES • WHERE: along the Atlantic Ocean• WESTERN BOUNDARY: for Southern & Middle:

Appalachian Mountains• WHO: Founded by Great Britain between 1607-

1732. • PURPOSE:

– economic opportunities, political freedoms, religious freedoms to escape persecution

• REGIONS: – NEW ENGLAND: New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Rhode  Island, Connecticut– MIDDLE (MID-ATLANTIC): New York, New Jersey,

Pennsylvania, Delaware– SOUTHERN: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,

South Caroline, Georgia

• Transatlantic Trade

Across the Atlantic

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage: middle

portion of 3 way voyage

1. Load ships with rum, cloth and goods to trade for slaves

2. MIDDLE PASSAGE: slaves transported to New World

3. Sell slaves, buy tobacco and other American goods and go back to Britain

Growth of African

Population

1. Cash crops: tobacco and later cotton

2. Workers: plant, grow, harvest crops

3. ##’s: majority of slaves were in Southern colonies because of agriculture based economies

GROWTH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE

•Music

•Religion

•Dance

•Language

•Culture: basket weaving

•Pottery making

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

•Founding Father•Social Mobility and individualism: born into poor family from Boston, MA•Printer Apprentice at 12; 17

ran away and sailed to London

to learn about business•Returned to Philadelphia in 1726 as experienced printer, writer, businessman•84 years: world’s leading authors, philosophers, scientists, inventors, and politicians

GREAT AWAKENING: ?? authority•1730’s religious revival

in New England•Puritans lose grip on society; membership declines

Brotherly love: NA & AA join churches, slavery evil•COLLEGES THAT CAME OUT OF THE Great Awakening: Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, Columbia

QUESTIONS: 1. 1ST English settlement in North America?

2. What was the City Upon a Hill?

3. 1st French settlement in North America?

4. What was the Middle Passage?

5. What was the 1st representative government in the NW?

6. Describe & name the Mid-Atlantic colonies?

7. What was the ultimate purpose of the 13 colonies for Great Britain?

8. Name and describe the Triangular trade routes.

9. Benjamin Franklin: why are the terms social mobility and individualism associated with him?

10. Name 3 colleges that came out of the Great Awakening: