Chapter 4: Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society 1720-1765
Part 1 - New England’s Freehold Society
Freehold society
Puritan women
Farm inheritance patterns
Arranged marriages
Household mode of production
Part 2 - Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Tenants (NY)
Quakers, Germans, and Scots-Irish in PA
“peaceable kingdom”
Part 3 - Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Enlightenment
Pietism
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
John Locke and natural rights
Deism
George Whitefield
“New Lights” vs. “Old Lights”
New Light colleges
Presbyterians
Baptists vs. Anglicans
Part 4 - The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1763
Albany Plan of Union 1754
French and Indian War (Great War for Empire)
Acadians (Cajuns)
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Postwar economy, consumer revolution and debt
Paxton Boys
Regulators