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Colonial Evolution in the 18th Century
Ana Yurena Manzano García Rosana Villares Maldonado
COLONIAL AMERICA
Index
� Introduction: Territories, Economy and Society. � Internal Cultural Conflicts:
� Enlightenment. � The Great Awakening.
� Imperial Wars: � King George’s War. � Seven Years’ War.
� Conclusion.
INTRODUCTION: FRENCH TERRITORIES
INTRODUCTION: SPANISH TERRITORIES
INTRODUCTION: ENGLISH TERRITORIES
INTRODUCTION: ECONOMY MERCANTILISTS EMPIRES IN AMERICA � Mercantilism. � Navigation Acts and its effects by 1750.
� Limited imperial trade to British-owned ships. � Navigation Acts forbidden the colonies’ exports of
good (unless England and Scotland). � Encouraged economic diversification. � Enrich the American Colonies.
� French colonies: They lost money with the fur trade. � Spanish colonies: Smuggling goods.
INTRODUCTION: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION DURING 18TH CENTURY ORIGIN POPULATION
Spanish colonies 19,000
French colonies 60,000
British colonies 1,1 million
Enslaved Africans Largest group of newcomers
Ireland 100,000
Germany 65,000
INTRODUCTION: SOCIETY THE RISE OF THE COLONIAL ELITES � 17th Century: class structure was no visible. � Wealth defined status (man and wife). � 18th Century:
� Main categories: � The Great gentry. � The lesser gentry. � The middle class farmers. � Colonial cities: poor urban underclass.
INTRODUCTION: SOCIETY ELITES AND COLONIAL POLITICS � The colonial elite dominated politics as well as society. � Political leadership: wealthy families with a tradition of
public service. � Conditions to vote:
� Men had to own land and properties. � Women, blacks and Indians excluded.
� Political indifference (rural areas, no political parties). � Political life only flourished in the major seaports. � Political development: the rise of the assembly.
INTERNAL CULTURAL CONFLICTS
� ENLIGHTENMENT: It is a movement characterized by a faith in reason and an appreciation of natural science.
� THE GREAT AWAKENING: It is a religious movement that pulsed across Protestant Europe in the 1730s and 1740s.
INTERNAL CULTURAL CONFLICTS: ENLIGHTENMENT
� American intellectuals. � Faith in reason and the appreciation of natural
science. � Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. � It flourishes in the seaboard cities. � John Locke: “Rational” religion. � Fear Christianity’s excesses.
INTERNAL CULTURAL CONFLICTS: THE GREAT AWAKENING
� Ordinary people. � A revival religious movement. � Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Gilbert
Tennent. � Division of American Protestantism: “New
Lights”.
INTERNAL CULTURAL CONFLICTS: THE GREAT AWAKENING
� Long-term effects: � Decline in the influence of older sects. � Founding of new colleges. � African Americans and Native Americans were
drew to Protestantism. � Women prominence in colonial religion. � Religious tolerance.
IMPERIAL WARS: THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (1756-1763)
� Virtual state of war between France and Britain.
� First years France won. � In 1758 the situation
changed for Britain (William Pitt).
� In 1760 the French resistance ended.
IMPERIAL WARS: THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR (1756-1763)
� Treaty of Paris of 1763. � Territories after the
war: � Britain. � Spain. � France.
� Proclamation line of 1763.
CONCLUSION � Cultural Conflicts: Enlightenment and The Great
Awakening. � Imperial Wars: King George’s War and Seven Years’
War.
These are some of the causes of the tensions between the colonies and the British Empire that will end into
the American Revolution.