Unit 1 - From New World To Revolution Day 6 – 18 th Century - Colonial life on the Eve of Revolution

Use your background knowledge to compare religion today vs. religion of the colonial period

 By 1775 the most populous colonies were – VA, MASS, PA, NC and MD  Most people (90% or so) are living in rural areas

 Colonial America was a melting pot  Germans, Scots-Irish, Jews, Dutch, French etc.  Scots-Irish cause some headaches  Turn to page and read prepare to share thoughts

 Lower classes kept getting poorer  Indentured servants kept coming  Lowest class – black slaves

 Christian minister – most honored  Physicians were poorly trained The first med school opens in 1765 Epidemics were BAD as a result

 Main job = agriculture (90%)  Tobacco (VA MD) / Grain (Middle)  Fishing not that big  Trade brought in $$$

 Lumber most important  By 1730s Americans need more goods than are coming from Britain  Look to foreign markets

 Americans trading with other countries  British in West Indies not happy  Act passed to tax products like sugar and molasses  Smuggling

 Dominant churches: Anglican & Congregational  Both supported by taxes  Religious toleration increases (fewer Catholics)

 Reminder #1 – Puritanism -> Congregationalism  Reminder #2 – The elect predestined for heaven / don’t know if you are so pretend  Reminder #3 – 17 th Century young generation stops going to church  Reminder #5 – Church creates Half-Way Covenant to increase participation (just believe in God)  Reminder #6 – weakens distinction between elect and non-elect

 Settlers not in church a lot  Wave of preachers  Personal relationship with God  Jonathan Edwards credited with starting it at North Hampton Church

 Faith in God not good deeds  New Light Preachers were enthusiastic  Old Lights vs. New Lights

 Crisscrossed colonies  Profess sins publicly or go to hell  Undermined power of old preachers

 1 st time colonist share common experience  New sects arise  Increase in Universities

 Primary Source Analysis (I Do, We Do, You Do)– 1) In your groups you will be preparing for the Socratic Seminar next class 1) Read 2) Circle 3) Underline 4) Highlight 5) Summarize 6) Question

 So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell; they have deserved the fiery pit, and are already sentenced to it; and God is dreadfully provoked, his anger is as great towards them as to those that are actually suffering the executions of the fierceness of his wrath in hell, and they have done nothing in the least to appease or abate that anger, neither is God in the least bound by any promise to hold them up one moment; the devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them, and swallow them up; the fire pent up in their own hearts is struggling to break out: and they have no interest in any Mediator, there are no means within reach that can be any security to them. In short, they have no refuge, nothing to take hold of; all that preserves them every moment is the mere arbitrary will, and uncovenanted, unobliged forbearance of an incensed God.

 Stem from Context  Direct Participants into text  Elicit more than one- word responses  Are generally concrete questions  What is the theme of the reading  What significance is this to ?  What are the assumptions of this text?  What might be some other good titles  Is it better to be----- or ?  In recent times, what well-known people are like….

 Are content-specific  May ask for the interpretation of a specific line or passage, often, how or why questions  Generally move the discussion into the abstract