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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 5 “The Eighteenth Century World, 1700-1775” COMMON THREADS What were some of the choices that individual men and women made in the eighteenth century—for example, where to live, how to work, what to purchase, what to believe—and how did those choices affect their society? How did such choices make everyday life more democratic? What were the forces that worked against such democratization? How were free Americans able to become wealthier even without significant technological innovations? How did the consumer revolution affect American society and culture? As the colonial population became more diverse and complex, with separate regional cultures and an increasing variety of beliefs and religious practices, were there other experiences that colonial Americans had in common? Is it possible yet, on the eve of the American Revolution, to talk about a common American experience or culture? OUTLINE The Population Explosion of the Eighteenth Century The Dimensions of Population Growth Bound for America: European Immigrants Bound for America: African Slaves American Landscape: The Slave Ship The Great Increase of Offspring The Transatlantic Economy: Producing and Consuming The Nature of Colonial Economic Growth The Transformation of the Family Economy Sources of Regional Prosperity Merchants and Dependent Laborers in the Transatlantic Economy Consumer Choices and the Creation of Gentility America and the World: Consumer Tastes in Global Perspective The Varieties of Colonial Experience Creating an Urban Public Sphere The Diversity of Urban Life The Maturing of Rural Society The World That Slavery Made Georgia: From Frontier Outpost to Plantation Society The Head and the Heart in America: The Enlightenment and Religious Awakening The Ideas of the Enlightenment The Enlightenment and the Study of Political Economy Enlightened Institutions Origins of the Great Awakening The Grand Itinerant Cultural Conflict and Challenges to Authority What the Awakening Wrought Conclusion WHO? WHAT? James Oglethorpe Consumer revolution Jonathan Edwards Industrious revolution George Whitefield Cottagers Consumer revolution Linked economic Industrious revolution development The Wealth of Nations Cottagers Linked economic development The Great Awakening The Wealth of Nations The Enlightenment The Great Awakening The Enlightenment REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What were the primary reasons for population increase in the eighteenth century? Compare the patterns of population growth of Europeans and Africans in the colonies. 2. What was the “industrious revolution”? How did it shape the development of the colonial economy? What were the other key factors shaping the development of the colonial economy? What effect did this development have on the lives of ordinary men and women? 3. What were the primary changes in urban and rural life in the eighteenth century? 4. Describe the development of the eighteenth-century consumer culture and discuss how it affected everyday life. 5. What were the chief ideas of the Enlightenment? Why did some men and NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 5 “The Eighteenth Century World, 1700-1775” women find them attractive? 6. What were the sources of the Great Awakening? Why were some men and women drawn to it? NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS