1. Students in the Class of an Angry Fox
“In due time your grade shall slip”
Fox grading policy Book 1: Verse 24
This implies many things!!!
You are always exposed to failing!
You fail on your own!
The only reason you haven’t failed yet, is because the marking period is not yet over!
And though Fox has the power to save you, he will let you fail if you choose to!!
There is no defense from the power of the Fox gradebook

2. Those that continue to deny Fox, prevents them from securing the ability to avoid failure!
Your “friends” are always near you, tempting you to cut class and do no homework!
Fox has never promised to pass you, but you possess the power to deliver yourself from a failing grade!
Keep doing no work, and the sword of the Fox grade book shall slice you into the pit of a 55!!
As it has always been, any student that does not bring forth good work will be failed and thrown into a repeater class!
But you can be saved,, and Fox is imploring you to embrace the hope and salvation of a 90 if you are willing to submit to Fox

3. Questions What emotions did this speech bring out in you?
Was the speech positive or negative and why?
What does this speech say about man and his path in life?

4. Do Now- Religion in New England
Why do you feel religion was more important in the day to day life for New England instead of the southern and Middle Colonies?
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

5. Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

6. Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?
Halfway Covenant-1662
2nd and 3rd generation Puritans becoming “Americans”
Material wealth over piety
Church membership and attendance ↓
Solomon Stoddard- God was compassionate and Sainthood not only for the chosen few
Halfway Covenant
Allowed non members the rights to baptism, but not full communion
Goals
↑ church membership
Revitalize religious spirit/ “born again” Christians
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

7. Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?
Salem Witch Trials
1692 Salem Mass.
20 “witches” hung
Fear of feminism???
Fear of “Americanism??
Fear of losing God???
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

8. Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?
Early 18th century religious movement
Revivalism
Mainly centered in New England
Start of Christianity for Southern slaves in large numbers
Similarities/differences with Enlightenment
Brought fervent religious expression to the masses
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

9. Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?
Jonathan Edwards
Mass. Preacher (grandpa was Stoddard, grandson Aaron Burr)
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
“There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell’s wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air; it is only the power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up.”
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

10. Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?
George Whitefield
Spread the Great Awakening
Methodist Church
Travelling sermons in America and England
“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.”
“The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so”.
redressing the balance of power between the minister and the congregation. Rather than listening demurely to preachers, people groaned and roared in enthusiastic emotion; new divinity schools opened to challenge the hegemony of Yale and Harvard; personal revelation became more important than formal education for preachers.
Gospel more important than ministers
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?

11. Impact of Great Awakening
Emotion into mass
Not just for the Quakers anymore!!!
“savings”!!
↓ power of clergy
“New Lights” vs. “Old Lights”
Competition for membership
Ritual/doctrine vs. emotionalism
98 Calvinist schisms
Huge ↓ in Puritans and Anglicans
40% 1760… 2.5% 1790
Spiritual cause of American Revolution!!
Anti-authority!! Self rule!! If people can make their own religious decisions,,,,, then they can make their own political ones also!!!!!! Democratization of religion/equality
1st “national” event for colonies
Aim: How did the Great Awakening effect colonial America?