Chapter 4: The Expansion of Colonial British America
1720-1763

     I. The Enlightenment
          A. Locke and Newton
          B. Impact on the colonies
               1. education
               2. science
               3. medicine

     II. The Great Awakening
          A. Revivalism
          B. Impact of the Great Awakening

     III. Immigration and Expansion
          A. Germans and Scots
          B. Georgia
               1. Georgia Trustees
               2. Buffer zone

     IV. Seven Years War (French and Indian War)
          A. French Incursion
          B. George Washington
          C. Albany Congress
          D. The British take over
          E. Treaty of Paris, 1763

     V. Pontiac's War
          A. Proclamation of 1763

     No lecture on The British Provinces in 1763 through the end of the chapter but be sure to read because that section
     sets us up for the next chapter.  In the Politics section, take particular note of why they thought women should not
     vote.

Key Terms

 rationalism
Two Treatises on Civil Government
Cotton Mather
Benjamin Franklin
James Oglethorpe
Fort Necessity
Albany Plan
Acadians
General Braddock
William Pitt

Study Questions

1. Describe ways in which Enlightenment ideas affected the American colonists.

2. Explain how education in the colonies changed in the early 18th century, especially in the areas of science, medical practice, and the founding of new colonies.

3. Why was the Ohio Valley important to the French?  Native Americans?  British?

4. What does the rejection of Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial unity (Albany Congress, Albany Plan) reveal about the colonists and the colonial legislatures?

5. What short-term and long-term impacts did the British victory over the French have on relations between the British colonists and the other country?