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Essay On Colonial Popular Culture

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The 18th century colonial popular culture started to shape itself due to the increase in population in a fast amount of time. Immigration and migration play a major role why population increased so rapidly from 250,000 to 2,500,000 people from 1701 to 1775. There were many other causes for population growth, such as partial democracy, religious freedom, and needs for slaves. Not only were there a lot of pull factors for immigration, but a lot of push factors for emigration as well. Reasons behind that are because many religious wars and persecution. Finally, all of this leading to major changes in religious and political aspects in the colonial popular culture. The new colonial aspects attracted many diverse people. Within those people, …show more content…

The political effects of The Great Awakening caused Americans to be more democratic and made people realize that they don’t or barely need an authority to make their own religious decisions. All 13 colonies had similar governmental systems by 1750. Within these governmental systems were 8 royal colonies with governors appointed by the king, 3 proprietary colonies with governors appointed by the proprietors, and 2 colonies which the governors were appointed by the majority vote. In every colony, they had 2 legislative houses and the lower house could vote against new taxes. In all, a large portion of the people of the colonies had no voting rights; however some of the barriers were being removed around the 18th century. In the end, colonial politics were restricted to white males only. The colonial popular culture in the 18th century can be described as a new, growing civilization. It brings new aspects of culture and problems of the diversity in religions. This causing political action to occur with politics being established. However democracy was still limited in the hands of the white male privilege of

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