Americanization,

Americanization,
Great Awakening, and
Global War

History 103
Sept. 21, 1998

The "Middling" Ranks

Economic independence and opportunity

High proportion of free population

Rising standard of living

Pennsylvania

William Penn

Quakerism

Proprietary charter

Recruitment of settlers

Population Growth

Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards

William and Gilbert Tennent

George Whitefield

Division over Great Awakening

New Lights vs. Old Lights
New Side vs. Old Side

Link to the Revolution?

Transatlantic phenomenon

The Evolution of Empire

Imperial bonds: commerce and war

"Salutary Neglect"

Points of friction

"French and Indian" War

French colonial strategy

Ohio River Valley at issue

Albany Congress (1754)

Washington’s failed mission

British army to North America

British setbacks

British successes

Treaty of Paris (1763)