Growth And Diversity Of The 18th Century

The two major sources of the growth and diversity of the 18th century were because of the African Americans and the Whites. During the early 17th century, most of the countries in Europe set out to establish overseas colonies and trading posts, because of that it brought back more things than they were originally use too. In the beginning of the 1700s the population was around 250,000. Over the course of 70 years the population grew to about 2,000,000. You ask why the population suddenly increased dramatically. It is because of the natural increase; the more births the longer the life span of the population being born. There was a lower mortality rate which meant fewer epidemics. During the 1720s and the 1730s the Indian conflicts decreased
Therefore African Americans were not a big part of the population. New England, in 1770 the approximate population was about 235,000. 97% of that population was whites and the other 3% were African Americans. The growth of this population was because of natural increase and land distribution. There was an equal gender balance, there were more marriages, and it was larger lifespans due to the rise of a married family. The largest export during that time was Fish. New England had about 95% of English immigrants and most of them came from villages. Most of the jobs they had were farming, fishing because it was a major export, and commerce in the
The population in the Southern Colonies was two times larger than New England’s, and the middle colonies. The reason for the booming population growth was because the slaves made up most of it. In the early 1700s the population was about 20,000, and during the 1770s it increased to about 400,000 people. The majority of slaves worked in plantation agriculture. The reason I think slavery was a big deal in the South was because Whites weren’t willing to do the hard labor so therefore they bought slaves and made them do it for little or no money at all. The reason why Slavery helped increase the population was because the Whites kept buying the slaves to do the work for