I. The Promised Land

Population pressures force increasing inland settlement

Violent confrontation with Native peoples

II. Problems in the countryside

Natchez Revolt 1729

Stono Rebellion 1739

The Regulators 1760’s

III. The Power of Thought

George Whitefield in America 1739-41

Great Awakening splits America 1760’s

Americans turn to more emotional, personal religion

churches split over revivals

Benjamin Franklin

American Anti-Slavery Society

Albany Plan of Union 1754

IV. Population centers

95% rural vs. present day 5%

City size, roads, sanitation, trash, lighting, fires, foods

Urban Work Force

V. Major Cities (1760 population #s)

Boston - 15,600

New York City - 18,000

Philadelphia - 23,750

Patterns of settlement 1700-70

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