1. The First Great Awakening

2. Learning Objectives
Understand how mercantilism lead to diverging interests between European leaders and British Colonists in the Americas
Explain the characteristics of religious belief associated with the First Great Awakening
Identify and discuss the ideas of Jonathan Edwards, one of the leading preachers associated with the First Great Awakening using primary sources

3. Agenda Discuss Document Based Question Formal assignment and rubric
Last presentation
Go Over Quiz
Great Awakening lecture and primary source activity
If we have time Crash Course Review (10 min) if you are a senior please watch this at home if we don’t get to it.

4. Conflicting Goals
Up until the mid 17th century Britain had left colonies more or less autonomous
mid and late 17th century the Economic goals of European leaders diverged from those of colonial citizens.
Britain begain to practice Mercantilism- The main goal was to increase a nation's wealth by imposing government regulation concerning all of the nation's commercial interests.
It was believed that national strength could be maximized by limiting imports via tariffs and maximizing exports.

5. Key Disagreements Navigation Act- Introduced in 1651
Required all trade to be carried out on English ships.
Certain enumerated goods such as tobacco, sugar and indigo could only be exported be shipped to England Ireland or another English Colony before going to a foreign port
Enriched English merchants but burdened planters
Wool Act Banned the export of wool from the colonies

6. Key conflicts Molasses Act- Passed in 1733
Levied high duties on molasses from the French Indies but none from the British colonies.
Lead to wide spread and popularly supported smuggling
Smuggling not often convicted in court

7. Enlightenment Thinkers and the Colonies
John Locke ( )
Wrote Second Treatise of Government
Civil society is created to protect property, defined as "life, liberty, and estate"
All men are created equal
Society exists under a social contract in which if breached people have a right to revolt
“By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.”

8. The First Great Awakening
Middle of 18th Century
emotional religious conversions from a state of sin to a "new birth”
No single set of doctrines or organizational structure
emphasized personal faith rather than conformity to doctrine
Dramatic and powerful preaching, sometimes outdoors, by itinerant preachers in front of crowds of thousands
Characterized by the emotional enthusiasm of its participants
(e.g. weeping, fainting)

9. The First Great Awakening
Contrast with the more staid and formal worship of traditional Anglican and Congregational services
The Great Awakening led several Protestant denominations to support missionaries who aimed to convert Native Americans to Christianity, especially in New England and the mid-Atlantic region.
The Awakening also led to the creation of new colleges— including Princeton, Brown, and Rutgers—to train "New Light" ministers.
The Baptist and Methodist churches were among its most important products.

10. Counter to the Enlightenment
As explained by historian Christine Leigh Heyrman, "a new Age of Faith rose to counter the currents of the Age of Enlightenment, to reaffirm the view that being truly religious meant trusting the heart rather than the head, prizing feeling more than thinking, and relying on biblical revelation rather than human reason”

11. Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God
In what context (at what time and in what place) did Edwards deliver this sermon?
Who would have represented Edwards' "ideal" audience?
What message does Edwards convey in this passage?
What reactions do Edwards' carefully crafted images attempt to evoke?
Did Edwards employ vocabulary with which are you unfamiliar?

12. Video Review
First a introduction to the Seven-Years War (French- Indian War) and the great Awakening brought to you by John Green.