11 th Grade United States History Mr. Weber CSULA Chemistry Bungalow September 24, 2008

Activator:  “What a Mighty God We Serve!” -- Modern day religious revival.  1. What images come to mind when listening to this song?  2. What do you think the term “revive” means? What about a religious revival?  3. Why was religion important in early U.S. History?

Agenda  Review (20 minutes)  Notes: (30 minutes) 1 st and 2 nd Great Awakenings, Antislavery Slave resistance and revolt  Comprehension check (5-7 minutes)  A People’s History of the United States Reading (30–45 minutes)  Exit ticket (10-15 minutes)

Review:  What is the issue with praying in school?  Is it different if the teacher leads it during class or the students do it themselves during recess? Why?  What about at a school assembly?  Which part of the 1 st amendment does praying in schools potentially violate?  Which part of the 1 st amendment does not allowing students to pray violate?

Review: 1 st Amendment 1 st Amendment Establishment clause: Separation of Church and State Freedom of Religion no law respecting the free exercise thereof Freedom of Speech, Press, assembly, petition…

Review: How to prepare for debate  Bill f Rights handout: “Free exercise” of religion clause protects a person to hold whatever religious beliefs they want and to pray in public or in private (also the right not to believe in a religion). “Establishment clause” prevents gov. from creating a church, supporting religion in general, or favoring one belief over another. “A wall of separation between church and state.”

Schools should or should not allow prayer? Issues to consider…  Judges have ruled that education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.  Freedom of religion and the separation of church and state are in conflict with each other when it comes to school.  Is one more important than the other? Does it depend on the situation?  What does this conflict say about the principles of religious liberty found in the separation and free exercise clauses?  Should it be left open to local communities? What does this say about the issue of national vs. local authority?

Objective: You will…  Analyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening… … the Civil War revivals, the Social Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in current times.

Key Terms:  Religious Revival  First Great Awakening  Second Great Awakening  Reform Impulse  Antislavery and Abolition  Slave Resistance and Rebellion

Religious Revivals

What was the First Great Awakening?  Religious awakening, rebirth. 1730s and 1740s in North American colonies.  Congregationalists and Presbyterians  Jonathan Edwards: puritan roots but emphasized power of individual and personal religious experience.  Fire and Brimstone. “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” by Edwards.

What was the Second Great Awakening?  A second religious revival that gave a moral impulse to efforts to reform society ( s).  Led by evangelical preachers Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher.  Famous tent revivals where people would be saved.  Belief in individual moral agency – perfectionist impulse: temperance (no alcohol), bible societies, prison and mental health reform, antislavery.

What was the antislavery movement?  Groups of people working to bring slavery to an end before the Civil War (1860) were called abolitionists.  White abolitionists inspired by the Second Great Awakening (the conversion experience).  African American abolitionists. Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth.

Who were the Black Abolitionists?

What was Slave Resistance and Rebellion?  Everyday forms of resistance.  Poisoning the master and coded stories.  Revolt: Haitian Revolution (1791) Gabriel Prosser (1800) Denmark Vesey (1822) Nat Turner (1831)

Comprehension check  Write a quick summary (5-7 min) of your notes. Include the following: Religious revival 1 st Great Awakening 2 nd Great Awakening Antislavery impulse Abolitionists Slave resistance and rebellion

Westward Expansion, Slavery and the Civil War  Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States.  “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God.”  Independent reading pp  The Mexican/American War

Exit Ticket  What will you do to prepare to demonstrate proficiency on the standard below after tomorrow’s debate?  Describe the principles of religious liberty found in the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the 1 st Amendment, including the debate on the issue of separation of church and state.