AMH 2010 exam 1 notes
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Mid-term essay outline
Explain the four major types of British colonial communities that developed by the middle of the 18th century. Talk about the economic, political, and social characteristics that made each community that made each community unique.
Introduction
Introduce 4 major types of British colonial communities: Urban seaports, Backcountry/frontier, settled farming, and southern plantation
These communities are distinguished by their uniqueness in economic, political and social characteristics
Body
Urban seaports: Cities like Boston, New York, Newport, Philadelphia, Charleston became major urban seaports and commercial centers populated by rich and poor alike.
In the 1700s, such cities were small and densely settled places characterized by congestion, ethnic and cultural diversity, high rates of poverty, and the many dangers of disease, fire, protest and riots.
Wealthy merchants and traders became economically and politically powerful, and the pathway to their profession was upwardly mobile
Important for trade: connect colonies to the rest of the world
NY, Boston, crammed, crowded problems (disease, houses built of wood burn, social tension)
MiddlingsWealthy people make money through trade/merchants
Polyglot: diverse, huge number of people from different places
Class-based society capitalism prices set by the market
Backcountry/frontier
As the next generation of colonists moved westward to find new, fertile land, they encountered plentiful acreage at cheap prices. Frontier families lived with the bare necessities acquired through subsistence farming, created a widely dispersed society of equals, and were subjected to a disorganized existence without organized law and order, community institutions, or organized churches. Thus, frontier communities became volatile and violent places where deep divisions festered between its residents and those of the eastern seaboard.
Frontier: line area right on the edge of savagery
Mid-term essay outline
Explain the four major types of British colonial communities that developed by the middle of the 18th century. Talk about the economic, political, and social characteristics that made each community that made each community unique.
Introduction
Introduce 4 major types of British colonial communities: Urban seaports, Backcountry/frontier, settled farming, and southern plantation
These communities are distinguished by their uniqueness in economic, political and social characteristics
Body
Urban seaports: Cities like Boston, New York, Newport, Philadelphia, Charleston became major urban seaports and commercial centers populated by rich and poor alike.
In the 1700s, such cities were small and densely settled places characterized by congestion, ethnic and cultural diversity, high rates of poverty, and the many dangers of disease, fire, protest and riots.
Wealthy merchants and traders became economically and politically powerful, and the pathway to their profession was upwardly mobile
Important for trade: connect colonies to the rest of the world
NY, Boston, crammed, crowded problems (disease, houses built of wood burn, social tension)
MiddlingsWealthy people make money through trade/merchants
Polyglot: diverse, huge number of people from different places
Class-based society capitalism prices set by the market
Backcountry/frontier
As the next generation of colonists moved westward to find new, fertile land, they encountered plentiful acreage at cheap prices. Frontier families lived with the bare necessities acquired through subsistence farming, created a widely dispersed society of equals, and were subjected to a disorganized existence without organized law and order, community institutions, or organized churches. Thus, frontier communities became volatile and violent places where deep divisions festered between its residents and those of the eastern seaboard.
Frontier: line area right on the edge of savagery