The Cultures of Colonial North America 1700 - 1780
North American Regions
Indian America
The Spanish Borderlands
History and the Land
The French Crescent
New England
The Middle Colonies
The Backcountry
The South
Traditional Culture in the New World
The Frontier Heritage
The Cultural Transformation of British North America
The Enlightenment Challenge
A Decline in Religious Devotion
The Great Awakening
Great Awakening Politics
Maps
Images
Vocabulary
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Homogeneity |
Pluralism |
Albion |
Schuylkill |
Appalachian |
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Presidios |
Homogeneous |
Solidarity |
Arminianism |
Enlightenment |
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Epidemic |
Revival |
Diversity |
Sovereignty |
Decadence |
People and Events
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Roger Williams |
Toleration Act |
Robert Walpole |
Cardinal Richelieu |
Cotton Mather |
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Great Awakening |
Benjamin Franklin |
George Whitefield |
Calvinism |
John Locke |
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William Tennent |
Encomienda |
Quakers |
Jesuit |
French Crescent |
Review Questions
What were the principal colonial regions of North America? Discuss their similarities and their differences. Contrast the development of their political systems
Why did the Spanish and the French close their colonies to immigration? Why did the British open theirs? How do you explain the ethnic homogeneity of New England and the ethnic pluralism of New York and Pennsylvania?
What were the principal trends in the history of Indian America in the eighteenth century?
Discuss the development of class differences in the Spanish, French, and British colonies in the eighteenth century.
Discuss the effects of the Great Awakening on the subsequent history of the British colonies.
Recommended Reading
Edward Countryman, Americans: A Collision of Histories (1996).
John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (1994).
W. J. Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, 1534 - 1760 (1983).
David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1990).
Jack P. Greene, Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1986).
James A. Henretta and Gregory H. Nobles, Evolution and Revolution: American Society, 1600 - 1820 (1987).
Jackson Turner Main, The Social Structure of Revolutionary America (1965).
Colon McEvedy, The Penguin Atlas of North American History to 1870 (1988).
D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: Atlantic America, 1492 - 1800 (1986).
David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992).
Robert Wells, The Population of the British Colonies in America before 1776 (1975).