Class Assignment 4

Chapter 4

Washington wanted fashionable clothing that advertised his status as a gentlemen. He wanted to look, live and behave like an English country gentlemen, and wanted to be accepted as a transatlantic member of the British elite. The wealthy colonist’s aspirations testified important developments in the 18th century. Prosperity and growing population tied the English colonies to London and the flow of goods between Britain and America fueled the desires for acceptance by the British elite. They wanted America to be more like London with their wealth and overflowing production of goods.
The Great Awakening was a huge religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle colonies and New England in the 1740’s and then spreading to the southern colonies. The Great Awakening affected everyone. Whitefield, an Anglican minister came to the colonies and revivals and mass conversions often followed his appearance. Crowds gathered to listen to his sermons and many converted and despaired salvation. Disputes between individuals and more extreme revivals split individuals into two separate churches, New Lights and Old Lights. These Revivals created tension between these two groups. However, The Great Awakening not only brought religious revival between groups it also fostered greater political awareness and participation among colonist.

Chapter 5

As the war was drawing to a close conflict between the Cherokee Indians on the southern frontier flared into violence. The Cherokees loss of Virginia and the Carolinas to the colonist created problems, as the British Amherst reduced gifts to the Native Americans and the Indians struck in a second war on British forts eventually ending due to starvation in 1766. Colonist no longer wanted friendship between the Indians and as far as they were concerned every Indian was an enemy. After