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| 7423803043 | Eighteenth-century colonial population growth | 250000 people in 1700 2.5 million people in 1775 The American population doubled every 25 years | 0 | |
| 7423803044 | African immigrants | Many came between 1700 & 1800, about 11 million Africans came to America but only 250000 made the journey. This greatly increased the population | 1 | |
| 7423803045 | Scotch-Irish, Scots and Irish immigrants | About 150000 came to the Americas for a better life. Came due to high rent, poor harvests and religious discrimination | 2 | |
| 7423803046 | German immigrants | About 85000 German immigrants came to America between 1730 and 1755. Came as servants or recently freed, and struggled by in America. | 3 | |
| 7423803047 | the Huguenots | French Protestants who migrated to Charles Town or New York. They created small rural community's for other Huguenots. | 4 | |
| 7423803048 | Sephardic Jews | From Spain or Portugal and settled in places like the Netherlands and America (N.Y. R.I. etc) | 5 | |
| 7423803049 | Urban poverty | People who were poor, were rich enough to own some nice things. They worked hard to preserve religion and pass it on to the next generation. | 6 | |
| 7423803050 | King George's War | Between 1739 and 1748, brought prosperity to the middle colonies. During the war, it demanded sailors and ship builder's from New England. | 7 | |
| 7423803051 | James Oglethorpe | Charter leader of Georgia in 1732. He founded Georgia and envisioned a providence with sturdy farmers. | 8 | |
| 7423803052 | Genteel Culture | Family's that lived a very more lavish life. They drank tea, attended parties, and lived in large houses. | 9 | |
| 7423803053 | Advanced education in eighteenth-century colonial America | Many people went on to collage to learn more. This meant less people in the field but it also meant that once they came back there could be better farm production. | 10 | |
| 7423803054 | the Enlightenment | People started to dable in the new sciences. Started to become more interested in things like witchcraft and astronomy. | 11 | |
| 7423803055 | Essay on Human Understanding | Essay written by John Locke in 1690. It states that humans already know everything but it just needs to be relearned. | 12 | |
| 7423803056 | John and William Bartram | Two scientists who supplied Europe with knowledge of plants and animals in America. Europe was able to learn about America without even coming over. | 13 | |
| 7423803057 | Experiments and Observations on Electricity | A report written by Benjamin Franklin about electricity. The same basic theory on electricity is still used today. | 14 | |
| 7423803058 | Boston's smallpox epidemic | 1720-1721, spread from parts of Europe to Boston's ports. Caused a lot of sickness | 15 | |
| 7423803059 | Two Treatises of Government | Report written by John Locke in 1691. It challenged to concepts of divinely scanted power | 16 | |
| 7423803060 | The culture of ordinary folk | There were not a lot of newspapers nor books around. Because of this, many people were illiterate | 17 | |
| 7423803061 | Religious rituals | People sat in very different sections in the church. People had to buy their own peiw. They were separated by sex, age, wealth or status. | 18 | |
| 7423803062 | Civic rituals | In Chesapeake, rituals happened in every court on every election day. All of the men got together to settle everything and court practices. | 19 | |
| 7423803063 | Rituals of consumption | In 1770, 25% of income was spent on consumer goods. Buying these consumer goods soon became a leisure activity. | 20 | |
| 7423803064 | Rituals on the "middle ground" | Trade often became a ritual with Indians for animal pelts. Settlers would get natives drunk to get better deals. | 21 | |
| 7423803065 | Colonial Familes | Colonial families became more mixed race families because of the lack of English women coming over to America. | 22 | |
| 7423803066 | Genizaros | Groups of different Indian tribes including, Navajos, Pueblos, Paiutes, and Apaches living in small comunitys. They then slowly lost their individual Indian heritage. | 23 | |
| 7423803067 | Mestizos | A child that was given birth to between an European man and an Indian woman. Lack of English women lead to more marriage and intercourse with natives. | 24 | |
| 7423803068 | The "indoor" affairs of farm households | The indoor affairs is what the mistress of the farm did along with help of the servants. They prepared food, cleaned, did laundry, cultivated the crop and smoked the meat. | 25 | |
| 7423803069 | The "outdoor" affairs of farm households | The outdoor affairs is what that man of the farm did along with the help of the servants. They usually did the larger, heavier things like, built fences, chopped wood, and butchered animals. | 26 | |
| 7423803070 | African-American Familys | 95% of the Africans in America were married when they were enslaved. They often lived in different places, that left little time for them to see each other. | 27 | |
| 7423803071 | Eighteenth-century colonial assemblies. | A mini government in America since there could not be a king there. They collected tax and even controlled the military. | 28 | |
| 7423803072 | John Peter Zenger | He was a newspaper editor in 1735 for the New York Paper. He was imprisoned for "seditious libel" | 29 | |
| 7423803073 | The Stono Rebellion | September 9, 1739, 20 enslaved men escaped from their plantation. They went on killing people but were soon stopped and killed. | 30 | |
| 7423803074 | The New York conspiracy | A slave rebelion in 1712. The slaves revolted against their owners. 23 slaves revolted killing 9 white men. | 31 | |
| 7423803075 | The New Jersey, Vermont, and Hudson River valley land riots | Between 1746 and 1766, land was granted to people but when the true owner went to find his land, they found that squatters were living on the land. | 32 | |
| 7423803076 | The Regulator Movements | Between the 1760's and the 1770's backwoods farmers and plantation owners butted heads because the plantation owners basically ran the government while the backwoods farmer could do nothing. | 33 | |
| 7423803077 | The First Great Awakening | A Christian revolution across the colonies. It deemphasized the importance of church and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience. | 34 | |
| 7423803078 | Jonathan Edwards | During the 1730's a noted preacher and remarkable with youth. He helped many people obtain salvation. | 35 | |
| 7423803079 | George Whitefield | From 1739, he went around preaching to people. He was such a famed preacher he became America's first real "celebrity" | 36 | |
| 7423803080 | "New Lights" and "Old Lights" | A dispute between the new and old generations of the church. The new lights questioned religious and political authority while the old lights did not want anything to change. | 37 | |
| 7423803081 | The Dan River Baptist Church | In 1760 had church rules apply to all equally. Some rules was that, inter-race sexual relations, divorce, and adultery were all forbidden. | 38 |
