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Chapter 05 - Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

Chapter 5 1700-1775 Colonial society on the eve of Revolution

I. Conquest by the Cradle
  1. By 1775 the population numbered 2.5 million people and 90 percent lived as rural farmers.
    • Americans were multiplying well; the average age to have a kid was 16.
II. Mingling of the Races
  1. America was a melting pot including of Germans (6%) who settled in Pennsylvania, and Scots-Irish (7%).
    • Most of the population (95%) was cooped up east of the Alleghenies
  2. The Scots-Irish over many decades had reached America and became squatters.
    • They were good frontiers men but lawless and individualistic.
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