SPECTRUM

Expansion to maintain expected opportunities - conflict with Indians, Spanish, French

Emulating cultural values of British society - became hierarchical, limiting opportunities

Slaves sided with Spain - Stono
Indians sided with France - fur trade
Catholicism of both countries

Population doubling every 25 years - demographics
double the need for colleges, ministers, doctors, craftsmen, sailors, etc.

Women
LOSS of power and rights during this time
Loss of property inheritance
As Puritanism declined, husbands not punished for adultery

Slavery
Upper and lower South distinctions
gang labor tobacco vs. malaria swamp rice (and task system "separation" and free time)

Colonial differences
New England, South, Middle

Enlightenment
rejected a wrathful God
exalted man's capacity for knowledge and social improvement

Harvard (low Congregationalist/Unitarian) Yale and Columbia (high Anglican)

Utopian failure in Georgia

Great Awakening
Protestant religious revival (emotional response to God's Word - conversion experience)

Jonathan Edwards - theologian who used Enlightenment principles to rationally defend emotion
George Whitefield

feminization of evangelical churches

creation of colleges
Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, Penn State, Columbia

NE - Congregationalists
Delaware - Quakers
South - Anglicans

Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians

Colonial government forms - omit

Imperial conflict renewed 1754-63

French Louisiana
Spanish Florida

Stono Rebellion 1739

French and Indian War - see maps
The War that Made America

Albany Congress
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