HIST 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: George Whitefield, Molasses Act, Charleston, South Carolina
21 Mar 2016
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The social revoluion of the eighteenth century: demography-many demographic shits occurred, economy, diversity. Four causes of the american revoluion: the enlightenment, the great awakening, seven years" war, commercial revoluion. Populaion of american colonies expanded from 250,000 in 1700 to. 1700-80% of the populaion was english or welsh//11% were african. 1755-52% of the populaion was english-welsh and 20% was african. 1718-1783- england deported 30,000 criminals to american. 1690: boston had a populaion of 6,000//new york had a populaion of. By 1750: boston had 15,000 people, new york city had 15,000 people, and philadelphia had 20,000 people. By 1770: new york city had 22,000 people philadelphia had 34,000 people, and charlestown, south carolina had 10,000. Wheat is a major export, paricularly from pennsylvania: mainly headed to briish sugar islands in the caribbean. 1768-wheat (pennsylvania) and rice (south carolina) accounted for. 27% of american exports: this increased the number of slaves.
