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Early American Culture

Early American Culture. Opportunity and Identity. Land, Rights, and Wealth. Colonies thriving – in part due to the Navigation acts. Cheap land, lots of resources Anthology Pg 68 – Benjamin Franklin. Indian Removal.

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Early American Culture

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  1. Early American Culture Opportunity and Identity

  2. Land, Rights, and Wealth • Colonies thriving – in part due to the Navigation acts. • Cheap land, lots of resources • Anthology Pg 68 – Benjamin Franklin

  3. Indian Removal • By forcing Native Americans to hand over their claims to large tracts of land - land became plentiful. As opposed to England where less then 5% of the population owned land.

  4. With Land came what?

  5. Right to vote!

  6. Class system • Do we have classes in America? • High • Middle • Low

  7. Roles in the economy • Women preformed many of the duties around the house/farm. - Made soap, candles, churned butter, cooked, made clothing, farmed, took care of animals, bartered. - little rights – essentially everything was males property. - Role in the church? Government?

  8. Did a lot of work around the house. • Children would become apprentices around your age. 11-14. • Essentially learned from an • expert- and worked.

  9. Schooling and the Growth of Literacy • Why were many children taught to read? • Usually only the wealthy learned writing and arithmetic. • Literacy higher in Colonies than in England • How might this play a role in unifying colonies? - T Paine! - Ben Franklin

  10. Newspapers/ Books • Poor Richards Almanack by Ben Franklin Pg 53-60 • The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson (prior to Salem witch trials) • Pg 69

  11. The Great Awakening • 1730’s-40’s – religious movement. • Puritan decline? • People leaving their religions, churches breaking off and forming others. • Lots of growth to Protestant religions.

  12. Great awakening continued • Jonathan Edwards • George Whitefield • Both big names in the Great Awakening – priests, speakers…

  13. The Enlightenment • Emphasized reason and science. • John Locke • Ben Franklin

  14. John Locke • Natural rights – today “Human Rights” • “Reason, teaches all who consult it, that being equal and independent, no one ought harm another in his life, liberty, health, and property.” • If government fails to protect those natural rights, the people have the right to change it. • Rousseau • Hobbes

  15. Challenged the idea that a king had the God-given right to rule • Ones power came from the consent of the governed

  16. John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes

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