Chapter 4 pages 135-150

1. What was life like in colonial cities? What was the role of American merchants? What does the wealth distribution chart on page 137 tell you about the rich in colonial America.

2. How did the Great Awakening come about ? What did theologians like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield have to do with the Great Awakening? What effect did the Great Awakening have on life in the colonies after the 1740's?

3. The Enlightenment gave rise to modern science. What laws of nature were discovered? Who are the leaders of the Enlightenment in the English Colonies and what do they do?

4. What do newspapers bring to all the colonies? Who is Peter Zenger?

5. What were formal structures of the English government? What was the role of the crowd in colonial government? Which element of government came to dominate the American political system? What were the elements of "Whig" or republican ideology?