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CHAPTER 3 | COLONIAL WAYS OF LIFE | OVERVIEW

CHAPTER TIMELINE

1619

First blacks arrive at Jamestown

1635

Establishment of the Boston Grammar School

1636

Founding of Harvard College

1660, 1661

Slavery recognized in some laws of the colonies

1662

Halfway Covenant accepted

1687

Isaac Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

1690

John Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding

1692

Salem witchcraft hysteria

1730s–1740s

Great Awakening

1735

Trial of John Peter Zenger

1741

Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

1746

College of New Jersey (Princeton) founded



CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

  1. Identify population patterns in the colonies and explain their impact on institutions and the development of the colonies.
  2. Identify and compare the chief features of the southern, New England, and middle colonies.
  3. Explain the land and labor systems developed in the colonies, the reasons for their development, and their long-range influences on the colonies.
  4. Describe the major features of social life in the colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
  5. Explain the effects of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening on the colonies.