HOW ENGLISH COLONISTS

TRANSFORMEDTHEIR IDENTITY:

1607 - 1763

Becoming AmericanPart 1 – 1609-1690

What did it mean to be English?

Limited LandLimited OpportunityGrowing PopulationProtestant - Church of EnglandOther Protestant Faiths less welcome

(Puritans) On-going and Growing Rivalry with FranceLimited Monarch w/ Powerful ParliamentStill a strong aristocracy – upper classGrowing poor class

What Does It Mean to be an American?

FreedomIndividualityJusticeOpportunityLibertyEqualityMake Money CasualIndependent

RELIGIOUS – THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PERSONAL AND PUBLIC LIFE

ECONOMIC - HOW YOU MEET BASIC NEEDS – FOOD, CLOTHING,SHELTER, WEALTH

POLITICAL- GOVERNMENT, POWERWHO MAKES THE DECISIONS?

SOCIAL - HOW GROUPS OF PEOPLE ARE ORGANIZED – RACE, CLASS, REGION ETC.

Four Ways to Look at This

And..it Depends onWhere you are

RELIGIOUS

We Shall Be A City Upon the Hill!

New England:

~Puritan

~Religious Intolerance

~ Strict Social Regulations

Quakers – Religious Tolerance

ECONOMIC

Political

SOCIAL

• INCREASED RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

•FROM THE MEETING HOUSE TO THE COUNTING HOUSE

•2ND GENERATION PILGRIMS LOOSEN PURITAN VALUES –MAKE $

•THEN THE GREAT AWAKENING!!( AN ATTEMPT TO GO BACK TO THE OLD WAYS

BUT REALLY BASED ON INDIVIDUALITY, FREEDOM, EQUALITY

RELIGIOUS CHANGES

• GET OVER THE SURVIVAL STAGE

•GROWTH!! ALL AROUND

•AVAILABILITY OF LAND PROMOTES WEALTH

•SLAVE CULTURE STRONGER

•SOUTH HAS CLOSE TIES WITH ENGLAND

ECONOMIC CHANGES

• ALL COLONIES VALUE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

•AMERICANS TURNED ON TO ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS – NATURAL RIGHTS (LIFE,LIBERTY, PROPERTY),

CONSENT OF GOVERNED, RIGHT TO REBEL, THINK FOR YOURSELF)

•SOUTH MORE COOPERATIVE WITH ROYAL GOVERNORS

POLITICAL CHANGES

•NO ARISTOCRACY DEVELOPS IN AMERICA

THERE ARE NO EXTREMES – RICH OR POOR

AMERICA IS EQUALIZING

MORE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND THOUGHT

WOMEN HAVE MORE FREEDOM IN AMERICA THAN ENGLAND

SLAVE CULTURE STRENGTHENS

SOCIAL CHANGES

Patrick Henry Makes a Good Point

"The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians,

New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!"