HIST 2300 02/20/2017

Daily Life

What entertainments did they have?

Massachusetts Bay (religious)

Games , sport, reading, dancing

Virginia( more secular)

Racing, cards, sport, dancing

Economy: luxuries

Needed items produced domestically

Colonies forbidden to develop factories

Technology for manufacture guarded

European Industrial Revolution

Produces -> china, glass, paint, cloth

Importation expensive

Become a "market of socio-economic status"

As part of an empire

The great chain of being

God

king

Man

The hierarchy of the community

Man

Woman

Servant, children, slaves

Political:

Royal Governors(appointed by the crown)

Local: councils and legislatures authority over local laws

The colonies exist solely for the benefit of the kingdom

There are no "rights" as we would understand them --> subjects not citizens

What changes by 1776?

Wars and taxation bring complaints

crown responds poorly to complaints

Colonists are TOO long gone from England-

Increase in non-English Settlers

New poliitcal ideas spread from Europe

Major 18th century political issues in North America

English colonists and their discontents to 1763

The first great awakening - religion and society

Seven years war

The proclamation line of 1763

New France(canada) and England

England "wins" Canada from the french

Exile of French out of Canada

The first great awakening

Trans-Atlantic protestant Religious movement

England --> America

Ideals altered to fit "local" needs

(All ideals from Europe "play out" differently in North America -- Enlightenment, religion, etc..)

Religious Revivalism

Individualism

Primary features:

Emotional, individual conversion

Revival meetings with strong sermons

Major figures in American "awakening"

Jonathan Edwards:"Sinners in the hands of an angry god"

Massachusetts minster

Preached to the indians

George Whitefield:

English minister

preached to slaves

Promoted less "institutional" religion