The American Pageant Chapter Five Outline

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5

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

1700-1775

1. Conquest by the Cradle

   1. Population growth

      • 1700, 300,000 people, 20,000 black ; 117, 2.5mill people, .5mil black

      • White immigrants 400,000 of increased number, same numbers for blacks

      • Natural fertility main cause of growth, x2 population every 25 years

      • Average age 16 in 1775

      • 1700 25:1 English:Americans, 1775 3:1 English:Americans

      • VA, MA, PA, NC, MA most populated colonies 1775 in that order

      • Philadelphia first city, 34,000 residents, trailed by New York, Boston, Charleston

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2. A Mingling of the Races

   1. Germans

      • Germans 6% of pop, 150,000 by 1775

      • Settled in Philadelphia 1700s due to religious persecution, bad eco, and wars

      • Lutherans, type of protestants

      • 1/3 of Pennsylvania’s population

   2. Scots-Irish

      • 7% of Pop, 175,000 by 1775

      • Not Irish, but Scots, who had gone to Ireland, and not prospered, due to religious conflict against Catholic Irish, and English restrictions on their production

        • Eventually abandoned Ireland and came to Pennsylvania, pushing out onto frontier

      • Mid 18th century big chain of Scottish settlements from Pennsylvania to Georgia

      • Armed march of Paxton Boys

        • Philadelphia, 1764, led by Scots-Irish

        • Protested Quaker tolerance to Indians

      • Regulator movement

        • Insurrection in NC against eastern domination of colony’s affair

      • About a dozen Scots-Irish became president

   3. Other European Groups

      • 5% of pop was French Huguenots, Welsh, Dutch, Swedes, Jews, Irish, Swiss, Scots Highlanders

        • No loyalty to royal crown

      • African-Americans 20% of pop in 1775, heavy concentration in the south

      • Most mixed pop in world

      • South held 90% of slaves

      • NE held least diversity, due to Puritans

      • Middle colonies, especially Pennsylvania received bulk of white immigrants

      • 1775, 50% of non NE’ers non-English, 18 of Dec. Of Ind. Signers non-English, 8 not born in US

      • African-American community formed, mix of African+American culture

      • NA communities emerged in Great Lake villages

3. The Structure of Colonial Society

   1. 18th Century America

      • Land of opportunity/equality except for slavery

      • No high nobility/low underclass

      • Most white Americans/some blacks were small farmers

      • Cities had small class of skilled workers, and shopkeepers, tradespeople, and unskilled laborers

      • Former indentured servant could go from a lower “rung” to a higher one

      • By mid century richest 10% own 2/3 of taxable wealth in Boston/Philadelphia

      • Class of Widows/Orphans due to War.

        • Philadelphia/NY built almshouses to care for them, but nothing compared to England, where 1/3 of people were impoverished

      • Landholdings subdivided as families grew

      • 1750 Boston full of homeless poor who were forced to wear a big P on them

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