Trg F05, Lecture #1 Intro And Demographics

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1. Slide 1: HI 342: The Revolutionary Generation in the U.S. 1763-1815
2. Slide 2: Welcome to The Revolutionary Generation Syllabus 1. What I Expect From You 3. Presentation Dates 4. Trip to Lexington and Concord: 6. ------ Fri., Sept. 23 (No class for those who are coming along) If you can’t go, you can just attend class that day at our  regularly scheduled time
3. Slide 3: Becoming America, Part I A Diversity of People
4. Slide 4: NYC Skyline, 1771
5. Slide 5: Anglican Church
6. Slide 6: Baptist Meetinghouse
7. Slide 7: Religious and Ethnic Diversity Many Faiths  Especially in the Middle Colonies  (NY, NJ, PA, DE) Many Ethnic Groups  Again, especially in the Middle  Colonies Decreasing proportion of English  emigrants Scots-Irish  Largest European immigrant group  (150,000) Backcountry settlers  Germans  Second largest (100,000)  Language Barrier 
8. Slide 8: Origins of European Immigrants
9. Slide 9: African Immigration One of the largest sources of  immigration in the 18th c. 1660—2,920 Africans in the  mainland colonies 1760—300,000 Africans  21% of total colonial pop. in 1770  Estimated Number of Africans Imported to British North America, 1701–1775
10. Slide 10: Origins and Destinations of Africans
11. Slide 11: Africans as a Percentage of Total Population of the British Colonies, 1650–1770
12. Slide 12: Population Boom Population doubling every 25 years  145,000 in 1660  2 million in 1760  Why?  The Seventeenth Century Immigration  Low infant mortality rate  Women bear children at young age  Perpetual food surplus  Little disease  Even slave population rose  naturally The Eighteenth Century
13. Slide 13: John Adams’ Post-Revolutionary Reflections
14. Slide 14: John Adams Second President of the United States (Letter written in 1818) “But what do we mean by the American 1. Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people, a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.”
15. Slide 15: John Adams (1818) “The colonies had grown up under constitutions of 1. government so different; there was so great a variety of religions; they were composed of so many different nations; their customs, manners, and habits had so little resemblance; and their intercourse had been so rare and their knowledge of each other so imperfect that to unite them in the same principles in theory and the same system of action was certainly a very difficult enterprise. The complete accomplishment of it in so short a time and by such simple means was perhaps a singular example in the history of mankind. Thirteen clocks were made to strike together: a perfection of mechanism which no artist had ever before effected.”