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Chapter 7 Section 1

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

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  1. Chapter 7 Section 1 Cultural, Social, and Religious Life

  2. What makes a society unique?

  3. Scholarship • Art • Education

  4. Benjamin Rush-Scholar • Doctor • Scientist • Revolutionary • Represented PA in Continental Congress

  5. Charles Wilson Peale • Artist

  6. Phillis Wheatley • Young enslaved woman from Senegal • Became a poet

  7. 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

  8. What were Republican Virtues? • Self-Reliance • Thrift • Hard work • Sacrificing individual needs for the good of the community?

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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.

  15. Revival • Common feature of SGA • Gathering where people were “revived” or brought back to a religious life • Listening to preachers • Accepting Jesus

  16. Denomination • A religious sub-group • Religious subgroups • Experienced rapid growth during SGA • Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Mormons, etc…

  17. 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

  18. 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.

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