| A. | Origins of revivals | ||
| 1. | Circumstances of particular communities | ||
| 2. | George Whitefield | ||
| a. | American tour | ||
| b. | Idea of rebirth | ||
| 3. | Gilbert Tennent and James Davenport | ||
| a. | Insistence on personal conversion | ||
| b. | Critical of recognized clergy | ||
| B. | Immediate consequences of revivals | ||
| 1. | Shattered unity of the Congregational Church in New England | ||
| 2. | Strengthened denominational loyalties in mid-Atlantic | ||
| 3. | Breakdown of localism | ||
| 4. | Jonathan Edwards's rational defense of emotional religion | ||
| C. | Long-term consequences of revivals | ||
| 1. | Three new major denominations | ||
| a. | Methodists | ||
| b. | Baptists | ||
| c. | Presbyterians | ||
| 2. | Founding of new denominational colleges | ||
| 3. | Impact on American Revolution | ||
| A. | New England | |||
| 1. | Major industries | |||
| a. | Fishing | |||
| b. | Shipbuilding | |||
| 2. | Mercantile activity | |||
| a. | Traders for other colonies | |||
| b. | Peculiar role in imperial economy | |||
| c. | Commercial economy/paper money | |||
| 3. | Weakest productive economy in North America | |||
| a. | Region with the least economic growth | |||
| b. | Consequences | |||
| B. | Mid-Atlantic | |||
| 1. | Major industries | |||
| a. | Agricultural production | |||
| b. | Grain | |||
| 2. | Mercantile activity | |||
| a. | Central role in imperial economy | |||
| b. | Importance | |||
| 3. | Land organization | |||
| a. | Small freehold farms | |||
| b. | Large manors (New York) | |||
| 4. | Steady economic and population growth | |||
| C. | South | |||
| 1. | Major products | |||
| a. | Chesapeake | |||
| i) | Tobacco | |||
| ii) | Grain | |||
| b. | Deep South | |||
| i) | Rice | |||
| ii) | Indigo | |||
| iii) | Large plantation as primary unit of production | |||
| 2. | Primary role in imperial economy | |||
| 3. | Sustained economic growth | |||
| A. | Origins in England | |||
| 1. | Political ideas of Trenchard and Gordon | |||
| 2. | Enlightened religious ideas of John Tillotson | |||
| a. | Impact of Tillotson in North America | |||
| b. | Role of newspapers in disseminating enlightened ideas | |||
| B. | Enlightenment in America | |||
| 1. | Religious influences | |||
| a. | Conversion of Yale faculty to Anglicanism | |||
| b. | Consequences | |||
| 2. | Founding of legal profession | |||
| a. | Professionalization of law | |||
| b. | Consequences | |||
| 3. | Enlightened influences on medicine | |||
| 4. | Benjamin Franklin | |||
| a. | One-man enlightenment | |||
| i) | Library Company of Philadelphia | |||
| ii) | Union Fire Company | |||
| iii) | Philadelphia Hospital | |||
| iv) | Philadelphia Academy (later, University of Pennsylvania) | |||
| b. | Scientific experimentation | |||
| A. | Competition between New France and North America | ||
| 1. | Virginia and Ohio River | ||
| a. | Washington and Fort Duquesne | ||
| b. | Consequences | ||
| 2. | New England and anti-Catholicism | ||
| 3. | Middle colonies and Indian tensions | ||
| B. | Years of British defeat | ||
| 1. | Braddock and disaster on the Monongahela | ||
| 2. | William Johnson and New York | ||
| 3. | Disunity between British and colonists | ||
| C. | Years of British victory/conquest of New France | ||
| 1. | Wolfe, Montcalm, and Quebec | ||
| a. | Deaths of Wolfe and Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham | ||
| b. | Consequences | ||
| 2. | Fall of Louisbourg, Quebec, and Montreal | ||
| 3. | Treaty of Paris (1763) | ||
| A. | War of Jenkins's Ear (1739-1744) | ||
| 1. | Origins with English sea captain | ||
| a. | Failed invasion of Cartagena | ||
| b. | Ninety percent of colonial volunteers killed or missing | ||
| 2. | Spanish invasion of Georgia | ||
| a. | Plans to plunder and liberate slaves | ||
| b. | Oglethorpe fools Spanish into withdrawing | ||
| B. | King George's War (1744-1748) | ||
| 1. | France joins Spain in war against Britain | ||
| a. | French lay siege to Port Royal | ||
| b. | Consequences | ||
| 2. | Successful colonial assault on Louisbourg fortress | ||
| a. | Untrained Massachusetts militia defeat French regulars | ||
| b. | Failed assaults on Quebec | ||
| 3. | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle | ||
| a. | Louisbourg returned to France | ||
| b. | New Englanders upset by this apparent slight | ||