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