1. Colonial America: What Life Was Like

2. Land Ownership: The ultimate achievement
Benefits:
Social Status
Voting and political rights
only possible for men

3. Colonial Schooling

4. Where and Why
Education (literacy) was more important in the New England colonies
Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
Hornbook
New England Primer

6. Where and Why
Southern colonies place the least emphasis on education because…

7. The Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards
Preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” while visiting in Enfield, CT
Most consider this event the beginning of the Great Awakening

8. The Great Awakening George Whitefield Close friend of Ben Franklin
British Evangelist

9. Effects of the Great Awakening
Dartmouth College created to train preachers…Indian preachers

10. Effects Increased church attendance and subsequent morality
Increased education for Indians and colonists (schools like Princeton, etc)
Created the Biblical background for the Founding Fathers

11. Enlightenment influence on America
Philosophers like Montesquieu and especially John Locke (----)
Natural Law, Social Contract, Consent of the governed, etc.
Important people like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were heavily influenced.

12. One was the foundation of the other
Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence: 1776
Locke’s Two Treatises of Government: 1689