CHAPTER 3 – Society and Culture in Provincial America

1. THE COLONIAL POPULATION

a. Indentured Servitude

b. Birth and Death

c. Medicine in the Colonies

d. Women and Families in the Chesapeake

e. Women and Families in New England

f. The Beginnings of Slavery in British America

g. Changing Sources of European Immigration

2. THE COLONIAL ECONOMIES

a. The Southern Economy

b. Northern Economic and Technological Life

c. The Extent and Limits of Technology

d. The Rise of Colonial Commerce

e. The Rise of Consumerism

3. PATTERNS OF SOCIETY

a. The Plantation

b. Plantation Slavery

c. The Puritan Community

d. The Witchcraft Phenomenon

e. Cities

f. Inequality

4. AWAKENINGS AND ENLIGHTENMENTS

a. The Pattern of Religions

b. The Great Awakening

c. The Enlightenment

d. Education

e. The Spread of Science

f. Concepts of Law and Politics

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Contrast the patterns of family life and attitudes toward women in the northern and southern colonies.
• Explain the changes in the lives of African slaves over the course of the first century of slavery.
• Identify and explain the reasons for the major sources of immigration to North America in the seventeenth century.
• Discuss the colonial economies.
• Describe and explain the reasons that cultural patterns in the English colonies diverged from life in England.
• Describe the intellectual culture of colonial America, in terms of its literature, philosophy, science, education, and law.

ESSENTIAL TERMS – The following terms appear in the College Board's curriculum framework, and thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. You should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of the social and economic development of Britain's North American colonies.

• Racial hierarchy
• Atlantic World
• Atlantic slave trade
• Anglicanization
• New England colonies
• Autonomous political communities
• Puritans
• Trans-Atlantic print culture
• Homogenous society
• Protestant evangelism
• Mixed economy
• Relifious toleration
• Middle colonies
• Enlightenment
• Cereal crops
• Racial stereotyping
• Chesapeake colonies
• British imperial system
• Tobacco
• Hierarchical imperial structure
• Indentured servants
• Mercantilist economy
• African chattel
• Slave labor
• Staple crops
• English colonists' world views and gender roles

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Cotton Mather
• Covenant
• George Whitefield
• Great Awakening
• Huguenots
• Indentured servitude
• Indigo
• Jeremiad
• John and Charles Wesley
• Rebellion
• Sabotage (slavery)
• Escape (slavery)
• Wool Act
• John Peter Zenger
• Jonathan Edwards
• Middle passage
• Primogeniture
• Scotch-Irish
• Slave codes
• Stono Rebellion
• Triangular trade
• The Enlightenment

The Crucible (1996)