HY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: George Whitefield, Atlantic Slave Trade, Consumerism
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2/2/17- the colonial consumer revolution: purchasing, people, goods, and ideas. Exports of raw goods in colonies grew, imports of manufactured goods increased. Cities grew, were collection points of the all the agricultural areas, philadelphia had almost 40,000 people. Southern colonies continued with slave plantations and were the wealthiest colonies. Disparities of wealth were less dramatic than in europe, famine was unheard of. New people, trends, ideas, cultures all flooded into the colony from overseas. 2 million people by 1770 in british colony. So many new colonists in the colonies the religious, ethnic, and racial makeup completely changed. Fewer than half the colonist were british. German and scots-irish had a large immigrant presence in the colonies. Most immigrants in the 18th century were driven to the colonies by economic desperation. Settlers continued to go further into back-country of the north and also went south.
