The Colonies, Trade and Goods

PERIOD 2:

    --Read  Taylor, pages 310-315.  Take notes, and answer the following:

        a. What was the "consumer revolution" in the colonies?  Why did many colonists have more access to goods in the middle of the 18th century?
 
        b. What was the relationship between economic self-sufficiency and the consumption of goods for many colonists?

        c. What were some of the markings of class, including "gentility" and "commonality"?

        d. What was the role played by English felons who were shipped to the colonies?

PERIOD 8:

     -- Complete classwork (pages 113-121) and descriptions of diversity in the colonies

     --Read Foner, pages 121-124.  Take notes.
  
             a. What was the "consumer revolution"?

             b.  Describe the growth of colonial cities and colonial artisans.

             c.  What does Foner mean by "the Atlantic world"?


Due:  Wednesday, January 8