APUSH Unit 2
Overview of time period
Reasons things are changing
Expanding Population
Causes
many babies born lots of immigrants more diverse culture market expansion
Numbers
1700: 250,000
1775-1800: 2-5,000,000 see settlement expansion before, all settlements 50 miles from coast 95% of world’s population never went past 25 miles of their birthplace by revolution, settlements west of appalachian mountains
95% of world’s population never went past 25 miles of their birthplace land becomes scarce people in the north had a sense of land equality custom was to divide equally among children
Yankee Traders comes from the Iroquois referred to all white people as Yankees
Raw materials made
Fish
Lumber
England was going through industrial revolution relying heavily on wood and using it almost all trees in England gone
Livestock
British begin to give land to individuals
The church is waning by 1700, church has lost all of its control
Economic Expansion higher standard of living
Middle class begins to rise merchants trade is booming
The merchant class is becoming more powerful than the church
Germanic immigration
Moravians
religious folks
Lutheran Pietists like puritans not as crazy start town of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania (1741) considered fairly liberal included women in religious services goal: to convert Indians start town called Wachovia in North Carolina (1752) start buying slaves weird because germans generally don’t enslave if they convert to christianity will be free generally on better terms with indians
Redemptioners (1725-1775) used after civil war to talk about southern democrats basically indentured servants indentured servitude is outlawed legally not considered but really are
By revolution germans were ⅓ of Pennsylvania Population
Pennsylvania
second only to london in population
Colonial Slavery the way we handle the slave issue has become one of the most important thing in US explosion of African
Reasons things are changing
Expanding Population
Causes
many babies born lots of immigrants more diverse culture market expansion
Numbers
1700: 250,000
1775-1800: 2-5,000,000 see settlement expansion before, all settlements 50 miles from coast 95% of world’s population never went past 25 miles of their birthplace by revolution, settlements west of appalachian mountains
95% of world’s population never went past 25 miles of their birthplace land becomes scarce people in the north had a sense of land equality custom was to divide equally among children
Yankee Traders comes from the Iroquois referred to all white people as Yankees
Raw materials made
Fish
Lumber
England was going through industrial revolution relying heavily on wood and using it almost all trees in England gone
Livestock
British begin to give land to individuals
The church is waning by 1700, church has lost all of its control
Economic Expansion higher standard of living
Middle class begins to rise merchants trade is booming
The merchant class is becoming more powerful than the church
Germanic immigration
Moravians
religious folks
Lutheran Pietists like puritans not as crazy start town of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania (1741) considered fairly liberal included women in religious services goal: to convert Indians start town called Wachovia in North Carolina (1752) start buying slaves weird because germans generally don’t enslave if they convert to christianity will be free generally on better terms with indians
Redemptioners (1725-1775) used after civil war to talk about southern democrats basically indentured servants indentured servitude is outlawed legally not considered but really are
By revolution germans were ⅓ of Pennsylvania Population
Pennsylvania
second only to london in population
Colonial Slavery the way we handle the slave issue has become one of the most important thing in US explosion of African