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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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 7 Section 1
Cultural, Social, and Religious Life
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•What makes a society unique?
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• Scholarship• Art• Education
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Benjamin Rush-Scholar
• Doctor• Scientist • Revolutionary• Represented PA in
Continental Congress
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Charles Wilson Peale
• Artist
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Phillis Wheatley
• Young enslaved woman from Senegal
• Became a poet
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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
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What were Republican Virtues?
• Self-Reliance• Thrift• Hard work• Sacrificing individual
needs for the good of the community?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Revival
• Common feature of SGA• Gathering where people
were “revived” or brought back to a religious life– Listening to preachers– Accepting Jesus
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Denomination
• A religious sub-group
• Religious subgroups• Experienced rapid
growth during SGA
• Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Mormons, etc…
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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
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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.