The Back Country


  1. Colonial Expansion
    1. Westward From the Coast
    2. Southward from Pennsylvania
  2. The Nature of the Back Country
    1. Population--Non-English
      1. Celtic--The Scots-Irish
      2. German
    2. Religion--Non-Anglican
      1. Germans--Reformed, Lutheran, and Moravian
      2. Scots-Irish--Presbyterian
      3. Evangelicals--The Appearance of the Baptists
    3. Economy--"Greater Pennsylvania"
      1. Small Farming and Livestock
      2. Isolation From Coast
  3. Sectional Tensions
    1. Coastal Hegemony and Backcountry Resentment
    2. The Regulators
      1. South Carolina--Ordering the Back Country
      2. North Carolina--Back Country Populism
  4. Significance of The Back Country
    1. Ensuring a White Majority
    2. Sectionalism--Predominantly White Uplands vs. Plantation Lowlands
    3. Religious Dissent--Evangelicalism