1. UNIT 3.1
Hello Garfield!
EARLY AMERICAN
CULTURE
MR. Dickerson

2. 1. What kind of benefits did owning land offer colonists?

3. Land Ownership got you:
Political Rights (Voting)
Determined your social position (upper, middle, lower)

4. 2. In what ways was women’s work essential to the economy?

5. Many times women made products that were necessary for their families and neighbors.

6. 3. How did the training of boys and girls differ?

7. Boys: learned from their fathers or were an apprentice (learned trade from expert craftsman)
Girls: learned from their mothers or neighbor

8. 4. How is colonial education different from education today?

9. School day is longer, more subjects, less religious, and is available to all

10. 5. What were some types of colonial literature?

11. Newspapers, almanacs, poetry, and histories

12. 6. What is the Great Awakening?

13. A religious movement that spread through the colonies during the 1700’s.

14. 7. Who was Jonathan Edwards and how did he contribute to the Great Awakening?

15. Preacher who terrified listeners with images of God’s wrath.
Famous Sermon: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

16. 8. Who was George Whitefield and how did he contribute to the Great Awakening?

17. Preacher who reached thousands of listeners with his booming voice=

18. 9. What were five effects of the Great Awakening?

19. Promoted equality and independence
Religious debate
New Church membership
New colleges
Charitable projects
Promoted equality and independence
Great Awakening

20. 10.What is the Enlightenment and how was it different than the Great Awakening?

21. Enlightenment – an intellectual movement that stressed science and reason as paths to knowledge

22. 11. Who is Benjamin Franklin?

23. American Enlightened thinker, was the most popular man of the day.
He was a scientist,
politician,
ambassador

24. 12. Who is John Locke?

25. English philosopher whose ideas influenced many American intellectual thinkers.

26. 13. What several ideas did John Locke argue in his published literature?

27. Natural Rights: Life, liberty, and property
He also challenged the belief that kings had a God-given right to rule

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