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Bellwork: What was the Enlightenment?

Bellwork: What was the Enlightenment?. The Great Awakening & the Enlightenment. Indicators:. How did religious diversity and tolerance develop in the colonies? What political rights were expanding in the colonies?. What was life like in the colonies?. Education Work Entertainment

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Bellwork: What was the Enlightenment?

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  1. Bellwork: What was the Enlightenment?

  2. The Great Awakening& the Enlightenment

  3. Indicators: • How did religious diversity and tolerance develop in the colonies? • What political rights were expanding in the colonies?

  4. What was life like in the colonies? • Education • Work • Entertainment • Political Rights • Religion

  5. p. 128: Class Systems • What differences do you notice between the two diagrams? • What do the diagrams reveal about social mobility in the colonies? • Where would you have rather lived and why?

  6. Key Question: How did the Great Awakening change American society?

  7. The Great Awakening 1730s & 1740s Religious Movement that spread throughout the colonies

  8. Teachings • Traveling ministers preached about the importance of inner emotion, rather than religious behavior • Jonathan Edwards and John Whitefield were famous ministers • Promised all could be saved • Idea of spiritual equality • Offered hope that people could start fresh and begin a spiritual relationship with God, or born again= Evangelical idea spread throughout the colonies

  9. Led to: • Arguments over religious practices • Some left their churches and joined others, like the Baptists • Religious diversity increased • Harder for an “established” or state funded church to control a colony’s religious life (i.e. Anglican Church)

  10. Threats to the Southern Social System • Baptism of African Americans, African Americans and Native Americans welcomed into some congregations • Slaves could preach, women could speak in church • Inspired people to help others • Start orphanages • Taught Christianity and reading to Native Americans and African

  11. Conclusion: The Great Awakening helped develop an American identity by encouraging spiritual equality and inspiring religious debate, leading to increased religious diversity. It also encouraged colonists to challenge authority and question traditional religious practices, leading to challenges against other social and political traditions.

  12. Key Question: How did the Enlightenment influence the colonists?

  13. The Enlightenment Emphasized human reason and science Ben Franklin: kite & lightening

  14. Ideas • Belief in Progress • Condemned tyranny • Condemned superstition (i.e. witches) • Valued justice and equality • Called for social change

  15. How did it begin? • Began in Europe, spread to the colonies • Scientists made new discoveries • Enlightenment ideas became very popular

  16. English Enlightenment philosopher: John Locke • Challenged the divine right of kings to rule • People had natural rights: life, liberty, property • People had the right to change governments that didn’t protect their natural rights • Why do you think these rights would have been so important during this time period?

  17. United Streaming.com “All About the Enlightenment: The Age of Reason” • Segments: • “Importance of the Enlightenment” • “Enlightenment Philosophers: Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu”

  18. Conclusion: Enlightenment strongly ideas influenced the American colonies and ultimately led to the American Revolution as colonists questioned their relationship with Britain.

  19. The Great Awakening Read the handout and complete the questions in complete sentences. HW: 5.2 Terms & (Honors: Great Awakening Rdg. & Questions) REMINDER: 5.1 QUIZ TOMORROW!!!

  20. Tomorrow’s Bellwork: How did ideas from the Enlightenment and Great Awakening influence American colonists?

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