Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Mid-Century Challenges



I. Great Awakening:


George Whitefield

"Father Abraham, whom have you in heaven? Any Episcopalians? No! Any Presbyterians? No! Any Independents or Methodists? No, No No! Whom have you there? We don't know those names here. All who are here are Christians...Oh, is this the case? The God help us to forget your party names and to become Christians in deed and truth." GW

How is the Great Awakening a challenge to British authority?


II. The American Enlightenment:
(THINK FRANKLIN)

III. French and Indian War
                        “play off” system

                        Battle of Quebec:
                                                Sept. 13, 1759
50 warships
                                                            200 transport ships
                                                            8500 men

                                    General James Wolfe:
“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

How is the French and Indian War a challenge to British authority?


III. Economic Shift

What is industrialism and how does it change the historical trajectory of the world?

POWER:
                                    Thomas Newcomen (1702)
                                    James Watt (1763)

STEEL PRODUCTION:
Britain:            1.3 million tons in 1840
                                                      6.7 million tons in 1870
                                                      10.4 million tons in 1913
                        Germany         :          
                                                            .19 million tons in 1840
                                                            1.56 million tons in 1870
                                                            19.3 million tons in 1913



The Factory System:
Division of Labor
(Industrialism specializes: Adam Smith)



IV. Land Conflicts
            A. Susquehannah Company
                                    (Pennamite Wars)

            B. Paxton Boys


           
C. South Carolina Regulators

D. North Carolina Regulators

E. The Boston Fire of 1760

F. The Great Migration of 1773



From 1763 to 1776 there was an influx of immigrants into British North America:
55,000 Protestant Irish
                        40,000 Scots
                        30,000 English
                        12,000 Germans (mostly to Philadelphia)
                        84,500 enslaved Africans

How might this immigration alter the historical trajectory of the colonies?

By the way, total population of the
13 colonies was about 2.5 million…

and the largest city in the colonies in 1776 is Philadelphia with 25,000.

…one example, a family of four from Heuchelheim, Germany.


V. Significance

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