APUSH SEMESTER I REVIEW The Awakenings Pilgrims & Puritans Early Rebellions
Compare/contrast 1st & 2nd Great Awakenings Both started due to declining church membership Both included “mass” preaching 2nd - 1800-1840 South/West Planned, organized “revival” meetings Burned over district New western style Charles Finney Significance: fostered the antebellum reform movements, new denominations, feminization of religion 1st - 1730-1750 NE primarily Spontaneous groups George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Significance: 1st mass movement in colonies – helped prepare them for independence movement
The Pilgrims To purify Ang. Church Great Migration, 1620-1650 1629, Salem; 1630, Boston Royal charter, MA Bay Co. Come in family units Create elected legislature – General Court –membership limited to male church members -“visible saints” Social experiment to create a utopia. John Winthrop, Governor Congregational Church Puritan work ethic Rebels – Williams, Hutchinson Separatists, family units “Visible saints” get church membership 1608 migrated to Holland but… Form joint-stock company Migrate to America in 1620- Mayflower…to VA but land in Plymouth Mayflower Compact – majority rule! Governor William Bradford 1st Thanksgiving, 1621 Merge with Puritans MA Bay in 1691, becomes MA Kids becoming too Dutchified in Holland --- not enough focus on religion
REBELLIONS – Which is it? In this 1794 rebellion, Washington used federal troops to enforce a federal tax and proved that the Constitution would provide and protect law and order WHISKEY REBELLION In this 1676 rebellion, former indentured servants on the colonial frontier rebelled against their colonial gov’t in the East for refusing to aid them with Indian problems; this rebellion signaled a move from indentured servitude to slavery. BACON’S REBELLION
REBELLIONS – Which is it? This 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia instilled fear in the South; slave codes became stricter, abolitionists fled the South & the South began to aggressively defend slavery as a “positive good.” NAT TURNER’S REBELLION This farmer’s rebellion in 1786 pointed out the weaknesses of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation and led directly to the Constitutional Convention. SHAY’S REBELLION