Colonial Society in the 18th Century

By colemcnew1

  • British Monopoly of Cane sugar and Tobacco

    The British began to cultivate their own plantations for both cane sugar and tobacco in North America monopolizing the market by producing an exponential amount more than the Spanish by use of slave labor

  • Barter culture

    The colonies without access to British currency developed a commodity or barter economy where goods and services were traded as pay. Tobacco and sugar were treated as currency

  • Assimilation of chattel slavery in North America

    North Americas large plantations called for a large labor force adopting the Spanish plantation model of chattel slavery importing hundreds of thousands of slaves by the 19th century.

  • The Great Awakening

    Protestant churches in the upper colonies began to take action on the increasing focus on self gain by teaching temperance, piety, and simplicity gathering a following sparking a new revolution

  • Johnathan Edwards preaches the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gods"

    Johnathan Edwards sparks the revolution by giving a sermon damning worldly shackles to find piety

  • Great Awakening teachings spread Throughout all 13 colonies

    The ideas of piety and simplicity to favor God begins to spread from Philadelphia to Charleston

  • The French and Indian War

    A war between England and France in the colonies and Canada using colonial militias to fight for land and resources

  • The start

    After a heated territory push American colonist led by George Washington fired upon french troops killing a diplomat.

  • Building Blocks for Independence

    With the Great Awakening, French-Indian war, and a self sufficient economy the Idea of independence from Europe was looming

  • Effects of the French and Indian war

    With the French surrender in 1760 the Colonies absorbed 11,000 British troops into the ranks

  • Growth of Independent notions

  • Consumer revolution

    Textile and manufacturing business began to boom as Americans, for the first time began individualize not only in ideologue but physically as well. growing industries include tailors, spinsters, cobblers etc

  • Pontiacs war

    A group of militant native tribes followed the visions of chief Pontiac slaughtered 400 soldiers and over 2000 settlers over land and trade disputes.

  • The stamp act

    The British fought tremendously hard to siphon the colonist of all possible profitability using tariffs to tax all imported goods. The stamp act of 1765 imposed a tax on all things paper including documents and materials

  • The Future of the colonies

    The French and Indian War, Pontiac's war, and a series of revolutions promoted the New American. One that was no longer British or french or German but entirely new and nationalized

  • Revolution

    After a series of imposing British laws and growing nationalism among the colonies a revolution hung in the air.