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3: Colonial North America, 1690-1754

a) Population growth and immigration

 * Population growth and immigration in North America is extremely important because of the massive influxes of immigrants into the continental region
 * the biggest immigrants that arrived at the time was the Scot-Irish and the Germans.
 * population growth also came from the growing amount of Indentured Servants (people who wanted to move to Colonial America, but couldn't because they didn't have enough money to do so)
 * the english who migrated to America also did so for different reasons:
 * some were members of high classes
 * others were businessmen who came here for economic reasons
 * others were for religious reasons
 * and others were for commerical reasons
 * Indentured Servitude remained an important source of population growth at the time
 * People like the Huguenots and the Dutch were arriving increasingly
 * others such as the Scots-Irish were arriving into the United States increasingly

b) Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports

 * Trade was related to countries in Europe, Africa, and the West Indies. The Colonial America had trade with other countries and was responsible in the idea of creating raw materials. In Europe, they traded raw materials and they got back finished goods and products. They traded in Africa to get slaves, and they traded in the West Indies to get crops such as sugar.
 * It was also called the triangular trade
 * The middle passage was a trade solely responsible for the transportation of slaves

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c) The eighteenth-century back country

 * The back country was related to the idea that the United States

d) Growth of plantation economies and slave societies

 * The creation of the rice economy led to an important increase in plantation growth es[[image:http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/history/carltodl/276/Plantation.jpg width="512" height="360" align="right"]]pecially in South Carolina
 * The plantation life was extremely precarious. On great years, many plantations tended to grow with the rise of Great Profits.
 * Plantations usually created their own little community because they tended to be far from towns. As plantations grew, small little towns were created around these plantations.
 * these towns were basically miniature towns with
 * Three-fourths of all African Americans in the colonies in the mid-1700s were living in plantations with at least more than ten slaves
 * half of the population lived with more than 50 slaves
 * **Slave Codes:** Color determined whether or not a person was subject to slave codes. As long as there was African ancestry people were considered black.
 * at first, Americans didn't know what to do with Africans, all they did in the beginning was make them work as payed workers or as indentured servants. Some blacks were lucky enough to be freed after a certain amount of labor
 * then, african slavery began.

e) The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening

 * **The Enlightenment:**
 * It was a philosophical movement during the renaissance period which was from the 1600 to 1800. During this time, major changes were created technologically, scientifically, philosophically, socially, and even culturally.
 * It was a time in which the celebration of reason took place:
 * Philosophers came up with the idea of natural laws
 * natural laws were: the idea of life, liberty, and property
 * the //Social Contract//
 * reason was combating faith, with all the sceintific discoveries
 * it was also the belief that rational inquiry helped Christianity, and that people should look into themselves before they looked for God.
 * It was basically a departure from the middle ages, that was no more.
 * toleration decreased for Churches and religion
 * **The Great Awakening:**
 * It began in in the mid 1700s, around the 1730s. It was a huge movement that swept, and took over the hearts of many people across the Eastern Seabord.
 * It was a new era of Religious fervor, that wanted people to break away from constraints and temptations of Earth, so that they can go back and renew their relationship with God.
 * evangelists spread revival all over New England
 * there were huge influxes into Churches after the religious fervor; more so than ever before
 * **The most important part of the Great Awakening was to combat those people who believed and were spreading the doctrine of scientific reason over religion. Basically, it was to combat the virtues of the Great Awakening**