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Chapter 7 Section 1. Cultural, Social, and Religious Life. What makes a s ociety unique?. Scholarship Art Education. Benjamin Rush-Scholar. Doctor Scientist Revolutionary Represented PA in Continental Congress. Charles Wilson Peale. Artist. Phillis Wheatley.
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Chapter 7 Section 1 Cultural, Social, and Religious Life
Scholarship • Art • Education
Benjamin Rush-Scholar • Doctor • Scientist • Revolutionary • Represented PA in Continental Congress
Charles Wilson Peale • Artist
Phillis Wheatley • Young enslaved woman from Senegal • Became a poet
Education • American Spelling Book- By Noah Webster, it called for establishing standards of a national language • American Dictionary for the English Language-alsi by Webster
What were Republican Virtues? • Self-Reliance • Thrift • Hard work • Sacrificing individual needs for the good of the community?
Why were these Republican Virtues considered to be important? • American would need these attributed in order to build the new Republic successfully • “Republican Women” had the responsibility of passing these virtues on from generation to generation
What factors drove population growth in the early 1800s? • 1780- 2.7 million people in U.S. • 1830- 12 million people in U.S. • Population doubling every 20 years • Immigration only play a small part in the early 1800s • The most important factor was a great increase in the number of births
Mobile Society • More people meant more crowding-especially along Atlantic Coast • Americans responded by moving away • Americans made the U.S. a mobile society-one in which people continually move from place to place
Mobile Society • Mobile in movement, and also position in society • 2 effects of Social Mobility • 1. American had great opportunities to improve their lives • 2. People had to learn new skills and rules for getting along with a wide range of people and surviving in a new area
Second Great Awakening • A Christian movement that was evangelical in nature. • Meaning: • 1. Recognized the Christian Bible as the final authority • 2. Believed salvation could be achieved though a personal belief in Jesus • People had to demonstrate their faith by leading a transformed life
Congregation • Members of the church • The SGA was very democratic. Anyone was welcome to join a congregation, whether they were rich or poor. • The importance of the congregation was stressed, rather than the minister.
Revival • Common feature of SGA • Gathering where people were “revived” or brought back to a religious life • Listening to preachers • Accepting Jesus
Denomination • A religious sub-group • Religious subgroups • Experienced rapid growth during SGA • Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Mormons, etc…
How did the Second Great Awakening lead to the growth of new Christian denominations? • Baptist churches grew because they reflected the evangelical zeal of the SGA. • Methodism was well suited to frontier life and appealed to the common people • Unitarianism offered hope and appealed to reason • Mormanism also gained popularity
Significance of the Second Great Awakening • Experienced by the whole country making it a collective cultural experience • Made it easier for regular people to hear Christianity, the prominent religion in the U.S. at the time.