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Cultural, Social, & Religious Life

Cultural, Social, & Religious Life.

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Cultural, Social, & Religious Life

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  1. Cultural, Social, & Religious Life The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. This is an American. --Jean de Crevecoeur, 1782 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgCQDZdlMdc&feature=related

  2. Cultural Advancement Education – • Educational Standards • Free public education • Republican Virtues – promoting certain values such as self-reliance and hard work. • Importance of women • New Scholars such as Mercy Otis Warren (history/politics), Benjamin Rush (science), Benjamin Banneker (anti-slavery).

  3. Social Change Population – • 2.7 million in 1780 - - -12 million by 1830. • Due mainly to high birth rate and immigration. Mobility – People move from place to place. • Great opportunities to move West. • People had to adapt to a new way of life and new people.

  4. Social Change • New rules regarding marriage – Courting. Religious Revival • Religious movement -2nd Great Awakening started in Kentucky and Tennessee. • Importance of the congregation stressed. • Women were very active in the movement. • Many new denominations emerged • Baptists, Methodists, Adventists, Mormons, AME.

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