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Religion
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Background Middle Ages; religion important
led to development of colonies
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Colonies Religion played direct role in the settlement of 5 colonies
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Religion – tolerance and intolerance
Roger Williams – 1636 Rhode Island most colonies no laws Maryland Toleration Act 1649
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The exception Massachusetts – enough Puritans to be picky
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Decline of importance concern turned to peace and prosperity
how one worshipped less important Glorious Revolution – 1688 William and Mary Toleration Act of 1689
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established churches (official or supported by taxes)
9/13 had established church None
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established churches (official or supported by taxes)
9/13 had established church VA, GA, NC, SC, MD, NY Puritan MA, CT, NH Anglican Puritan None Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Maryland New York Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Rhode Island Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware
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Changing ideas Separation of Church and State apathy frontier
lack of ministers
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deism philosophy – man controls his destiny popular among colonists
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
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Great Awakening spread through south
speakers came talked to people at their level made religion intensely personal to the average person by creating a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption
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Old Lights New lights Old Lights v New Lights Rational Appeal
Educated Ministry Established Classes Emotional Appeal Converted Ministry Dispossessed Classes Old Lights v New Lights
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George Whitefield (Methodist) Itinerant ministers Great orator
no class, gender, race differences Everyone is a sinner
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Jonathan Edwards (Congregationalist {Puritan/Calivinist}) Presbyterian Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Reject doctrine and ritual
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