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http://www.industryplayer.com/images/licrespic/spices.jpg. http://z.about.com/d/geography/1/0/Q/B/tord1.jpg. England circa 1600. Jamestown 1607 http://www.history.com/minisites/jamestownanniversary/. http://www.virginiavignettes.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/powhatan_john_smith_map.jpg.
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Jamestown 1607http://www.history.com/minisites/jamestownanniversary/
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“What will it avalle you to take that by force you may quickly have by love, or to destroy them that provide you food. What can you get by warre, when we can hide our provisions and fly to the woods? Whereby you must famish by wronging us your friends. And why are you thus jealous of our loves seeing us unarmed, and both doe, and are willing still to feede you, with that you cannot get but by our labours?
1619 http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/cappc2.jpg http://www.jamd.com/search?assettype=g&assetid=56248520&text=Jamestown+slaves
The Haves1700s http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/hbpal.cfm Governor’s Palace/ Williamsburg Finished 1722 Stratford Hall Lee Family Home Built 1730
Rebellion … 1676 http://www.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/0colhis/sou22.jpg The Burning Of Jamestown, 1676 1901Pyle, Howard(1853-1911 American)Lithograph Private Collection
Plymouth, 1620 http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revgfx/may-compact.jpg http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.new-england-vacations-guide.com/images/plymouth-travel-map.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.new-england-vacations-guide.com/plimoth-plantation.html&h=300&w=500&sz=26&hl=en&start=3&usg=__nbtM3WsXZ1UYsreCK-f1eq3_5z4=&tbnid=CSWRTmx9e0GOVM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPilgrims%2BPlymouth%2Bmap%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dstrict%26client%3Ddell-usuk%26channel%3Dus%26sa%3DG%26ad%3Dw5
PuritansGreat Migration 1630-40 http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/chistory/images/34winthrop.jpg http://www.bementfamily.com/images/massbay1630-42.jpg
Puritans • Go from persecuted minority to intolerant majority • Quakers • Banishment Law • Theocracy? • Salem and witches • 1700 Anglicans arrive
Old North Church Boston
Exceptions to the rule… Rhode Island and Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson
Penn’s Holy Experiment • John Adams claimed that PA contained “Roman Catholics, English Episcopalians, Scotch and American Presbyterians, Methodists, Moravians, Anabaptists, German Lutherans, Cerman Calvinists, Universalists, Arians, Priestleyans, Socinans, Independents, Congregationalists,…Deists andAtheists” (Holmes) • AND…
The Quakers Arch Street Friends meeting house Philadelphia
Salvation from within… through your inward light/conscience/soul … the Divine spark • Step towards power of the individual • Everyone can be saved • 1750s no longer the key political power… have moved to social activism…women play key roles
The Questioning of Institutions and traditions Enlightenment, Awakenings, Evolving American Revolutionary creeds and dogma
The Great Awakening • 1730s – 1770s • Various reasons … • Led to waves of revivals • Traditional services vs Evangelical happenings • “and therefore a divine revelation must be a collection of rays of light…” (Samuel Davies’ sermon The Divine Authority of the Christian Religion) • Black and white audiences
George Whitefield • Wesleyan Anglican from GB • 1739 – 42 tour from GA to NE “gales of the heavenly wind” sermons • Crowds of up to 6,000 • Media savvy • The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole
Jonathan Edwards • “Our people do not so much need to have their heads stored as to have their hearts touched.” and it was a “reasonable thing to endeavor to fright persons away from hell.” • “The bow of god’s wrath is bent and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with you blood.” Sinners in the Hand… (all quotes from text: America)
Imitators abound, spiritual enthusiasm hard to control, revival of traditional religion takes new direction • Split established churches • Natural law led to Unitarianism and Universalism • New style of preaching • New colleges in North • Missionary movement in the South
Yeocomicobaptist church Mt. shilohbaptist church
Awakening results: • Questioning of authority • Ignoring the power of C of E bishops over Anglicans …can lead to same questioning of King • Strengthens the sense of the individual • Intercolonial contact via media
The Enlightenment • Science … Newton and the Natural Laws of the Universe • Deists and Voltaire’s “Supreme Architect” • Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding • Use of Reason is the highest Virtue • God established divine law and the law can be discovered through reason. • Human mind can be used to understand what God intended • American elite receptive to these ideas. • What about the common person?