Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution
I. Conquest by the Cradle
1.1 1775 the Britain government was ruling most part of North America which was only 32 colonies at the time, and which of the 32 only 13 of those colonies rebelled against the king at the time. It was mostly because of the ways they thought which was very different.
Over the course of the 1700s, North america’s population exploded. In the end of the 1700’s the British Government no longer had greater numbers in people than those of its colonies
In the year 1775, the most populated colonies were North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
2.2 A Potpourri of People
-There was many problems coming into the new world, but with the time passing it only got worse it was a race to the new world. …show more content…
Most of them settled in the colony of Pennsylvania, fleeing religious persecution, economic oppression, and the ravages of war.
In that same year about 7% of the whole population was Scottish/Irish most of them were scattered into different colonies along the "great wagon road" which reached from Pennsylvania all the way to Georgia
The Scots-Irish led the armed march of the Paxton Boys in Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy lenient policy toward the Indians. The years following the protest the Irish/scottish people led the Regulator movement which was held in North Carolina. Even Though it was a small march it became bloody and a lot of trouble when going against the eastern domination colony’s affairs. A.B The structure of the Colonial