Essential Question

1. Essential Question What specific roles did education & religion play in the development of early American culture?

2. Colonial Life & Religious Revival Chapter 5 Section 1 Pt I

3. Life of the Young • American farming families were large • New England families often had 6-8 children • More children meant more farmhands • By age 6, boys were put to work daily • By age 13, a boy may leave home to become an apprentice • Apprentices learned a trade from an experienced craftsman • An apprenticeship usually lasted 4-7 years

4. Quiz Question • At age 13, many boys in the colonies left home to become ___________? • Merchants • Apprentices • Soldiers • Preachers

5. Life of the Young • Girls were rarely apprenticed • Girls were taught “household” skills by their mothers • Upper class girls were often sent to “dame schools” to learn: • Etiquette, Hostessing, etc.

6. A Sweeping Cultural Movement • The Great Awakening was a religious movement that appealed to colonists’ faith and emotion • Preachers focused on the importance of inner spiritual emotion, rather than outward religious behavior • Many ministers traveled through the colonies and drew large crowds • This movement offered hope to the individual b/c: • Past transgressions would be forgiven • A new relationship w/ God would be forged

7. Preachers • Two preachers stood out amongst the rest b/c of their passion, charisma, and message • Jonathon Edwards • New England preacher & writer known for his fiery sermons like “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” • George Whitefield • Colonial preacher largely responsible for establishing the Methodist church in the South

8. The Message • The major message being passed on by these ministers the need to have a personal & spiritual relationship w/ God • This personal/spiritual relationship would begin with a sudden conversion • This is the basic doctrine of Evangelicalism (i.e. “Born Again”) • So, the conversion people experienced was called a “rebirth” or “awakening”