Chapter 5 1700-1775 Colonial society on the eve of Revolution Conquest by the Cradle By 1775 the population numbered 2.5 million people and 90 percent lived as rural farmers. Americans were multiplying well; the average age to have a kid was 16. Mingling of the Races America was a melting pot including of Germans (6%) who settled in Pennsylvania, and Scots-Irish (7%). Most of the population (95%) was cooped up east of the Alleghenies The Scots-Irish over many decades had reached America and became squatters. They were good frontiers men but lawless and individualistic.
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