HIST 105 1st Edition Lecture 10 I I II III IV V Outline of previous lecture Putting Down Roots II a Slavery b Stono Rebellion c Virginia d New England e England Outline of current lecture Scottish Germans Native Americans The Enlightenment The Great Awakening a Effects Current Lecture The colonies Population increase Black white red Non english whites Shifting westward ON EXAM Scots Irish people from Scotland These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Populated Ireland Anglican elites discriminated against Presbyterians o Persecuted the Scots Emigrated to colonies Pennsylvania o Quakers already living there Different culture and religion Germans Lutherans Better life Show up in Pennsylvania Populate the back country o Moved west Bad news for Native Americans Quakers treated them well Germans were not accepting Native Americans Driven from East Coast by violence and disease Between Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River o Joined other tribes Middle ground o Compromise Negotiated o Example Pilgrims showed up and Wampanoag compromised instead of fighting o Perishable 18th Century Spanish Borderlands The Spanish Mexico CA AZ NM TX LA MS AL o Southern part of US Florida o Example of country that cant Manage support and defend Little growth Cities Periphery Colonial Centers important in revolution o Boston o New York o Philadelphia o Charleston The Enlightenment Human capacity to acquire knowledge Value of scientific investigation Natural rights o from God Reason Liberty Equality Britain o John Locke Philosophers of enlightenment British North America o Ben Franklin Colonial trade England o Principle market Caribbean o Food from N America o Sugar rum molasses from Caribbean Colonial Economy Consumerism o Level of prosperity Expected growth British credit o Buying stuff that you cannot afford leads to problems Inter colonial trade o Great Wagon Road The Great Awakening 1720 1760 Colonial religion Overwhelmingly protestant Apathetic congregations Low percentage of church attendance half way covenant o as long as you are a child of someone who has had a rebirth you are okay The Great Awakening 1720 1760 individual responsibility for conversion George Whitefield English Anglican o English American o Preaches o Message of Christianity Jonathan Edwards Massachusetts o Local guy preaches Sinners in the hands of an angry God greatest sermon Against the establishment s power o Church was too powerful o All they needed was the bible Effects of Great Awakening Religious pluralism o Virginia Anglican church o New England Congregational Diversity over uniformity Separation of church and state o Problem in Rhode island People who ran church also ran politics Feeding the concepts of American revolution Reduced church influence in education o Harvard founded by church now not i e Yale Sense of individual worth
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