1. The Founding of Our Nation: Part One
The Enlightenment and The Great Awakening
C.C. Standards &

2. Pre Lesson Focus: During the lesson answer these questions
How did the economies of the Southern and Northern colonies differ?
In what ways did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening affect the thinking of the colonists?
What did both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening teach colonists to question?

3. The Establishing of the 13 Colonies
1607: The English settle at Jamestown
Tobacco becomes cash crop in Virginia
Requires a lot of labor
Question: What does this eventually lead to?
Clashes with Native Americans

4. Who formed the colonies?
Economic opportunity – English, Dutch, and Swedes
Religious persecution, political repression, and dismal economic conditions (Quakers, Puritans, and Catholics)

5. New England Colonies:
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut

6. Middle Colonies:
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware

7. Southern Colonies:
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

8. The Proclamation Line of 1763

9. What is the purpose of colonies?
Supply their ruling country with raw materials they do not have.
Example: 13 English Colonies of the 1700s
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In return for these raw materials, the colonies would receive manufactured goods from England such as textiles.

10. The Colonies Come of Age
Even though both Northern and Southern colonies prospered, many colonists began to question British authority.

11. Southern Economy: Triangular Trade
Plantations required cheap labor = Slaves
Self-sufficient plantations
Immigrants from Europe
Women & Minorities = very few rights

12. Northern Economy: Commerce & Trade
Wheat, Fishing, Lumber & Shipbuilding
Philadelphia: 2nd Largest British port
More European immigrants
Women & Minorities = very few rights

13. The Enlightenment
Definition: An intellectual movement of reason and scientific methods
Roots in the Renaissance
Fiercely resisted due to contradictions to religious teachings
Spread quickly in the colonies due to high literacy rates.
Question: Why was there high literacy rates in the colonies?

14. The principle of the Enlightenment: Question Authority
To arrive at truths follow this recipe:
Use science and logic
Don’t listen to the Church
In politics:
Humans have natural rights that the government must respect (John Locke & Thomas Jefferson)
Question those who govern you
What country was governing the colonies at this time? What kind of leader did they have?

15. The First Great Awakening
When: 1730s-1740s
Who: Puritans and their moral society
Definition: A series of religious revivals aimed at restoring the intensity and dedication of the early Puritan church.
Key Player: Jonathan Edwards

16. The Effects of The Great Awakening
Challenged the authority of established churches
Challenged church authority
Key:
Question those who are in charge!!!

17. Review Time How did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening differ?
Turn to your neighbor and discuss the following:
How did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening differ?
How were they the same?

18. Post Lecture Question #1
What effect did the Enlightenment have on political thought in the colonies?
Colonial leaders began extending voting rights to all citizens.
The First Continental Congress determined a need for a federal bill of rights.
Colonial leaders began advocating the adoption of a state-supported church.
Colonists began to question the authority of the British monarchy.

19. Post Lecture Question #1
What effect did the Enlightenment have on political thought in the colonies?
Colonial leaders began extending voting rights to all citizens.
The First Continental Congress determined a need for a federal bill of rights.
Colonial leaders began advocating the adoption of a state-supported church.
Colonists began to question the authority of the British monarchy.

20. Post Lecture Question #2
The First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s was primarily a
Movement to increase colonial loyalty to the British monarchy.
Revival of evangelical religion that spread through the colonies.
Process of assimilating immigrants into colonial American culture.
Period of economic prosperity brought about by colonial trade.

21. Post Lecture Question #2
The First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s was primarily a
Movement to increase colonial loyalty to the British monarchy.
Revival of evangelical religion that spread through the colonies.
Process of assimilating immigrants into colonial American culture.
Period of economic prosperity brought about by colonial trade.