Apush Unit 1 Identity

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Identity- The First Great Awakening = increased the number of women in church congregations. Quakers= believed in and led to greater role for women in church services/ opposed slavery, one of Americas first abolitionists. Women usually lost control of her property when she married, a married women had no legal identity apart from her husband, single women and widows had the right to own property. Great awakening- “new lights’ = believed in emotional approach to religion which weakened “old light” (traditional) ministers and churches. New lights: promoted higher learning (princeton), led to conversion of many black slaves, led to emotional experiences of faith, led to divisions in churches.Phillis Wheatley = African poet/ first recognized black writer in America.
Peopling- Indentured servants: people whose trip to the new world was paid by another, in return, that person would have to work a certain number of years for the provider. Headright system: to encourage the importation of indentured servants ( free/cheap labor was in need because of tobacco plantations) whoever paid the passage of the laborer got 50 acres of land. Puritans came to New England in family groups: wanted religious freedom. Scotch-Irish immigrants moved into appalachia when the Native Americans were defeated.Great Migration= people came to …show more content…
Native Americans became dependent of fur and hide trade. European diseases like smallpox, influenza, and measles slowly dwindled native population. As indentured servants coming to america began to dwindle, Black slaves replaced them in tobacco fields.Slavery spread because tobacco needed lots of inexpensive labor. Colonial cities= mercantile centers, they collected agricultural goods and distributed imported manufactured goods. Franklin= founding father, writer,
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