1. Cultural, Social, and Religious Life
Chapter 7 Section 1
Cultural, Social, and Religious Life

2. What makes a society unique?

3. Scholarship
Art
Education

4. Benjamin Rush-Scholar
Doctor
Scientist
Revolutionary
Represented PA in Continental Congress

5. Charles Wilson Peale
Artist

6. Phillis Wheatley
Young enslaved woman from Senegal
Became a poet

7. Education
American Spelling Book- By Noah Webster, it called for establishing standards of a national language
American Dictionary for the English Language-alsi by Webster

8. What were Republican Virtues?
Self-Reliance
Thrift
Hard work
Sacrificing individual needs for the good of the community?

9. Why were these Republican Virtues considered to be important?
American would need these attributed in order to build the new Republic successfully
“Republican Women” had the responsibility of passing these virtues on from generation to generation

10. What factors drove population growth in the early 1800s?
million people in U.S.
million people in U.S.
Population doubling every 20 years
Immigration only play a small part in the early 1800s
The most important factor was a great increase in the number of births

11. Mobile Society
More people meant more crowding-especially along Atlantic Coast
Americans responded by moving away
Americans made the U.S. a mobile society-one in which people continually move from place to place

12. Mobile Society Mobile in movement, and also position in society
2 effects of Social Mobility
1. American had great opportunities to improve their lives
2. People had to learn new skills and rules for getting along with a wide range of people and surviving in a new area

13. Second Great Awakening
A Christian movement that was evangelical in nature.
Meaning:
1. Recognized the Christian Bible as the final authority
2. Believed salvation could be achieved though a personal belief in Jesus
People had to demonstrate their faith by leading a transformed life

14. Congregation Members of the church
The SGA was very democratic. Anyone was welcome to join a congregation, whether they were rich or poor.
The importance of the congregation was stressed, rather than the minister.

15. Revival Common feature of SGA
Gathering where people were “revived” or brought back to a religious life
Listening to preachers
Accepting Jesus

16. Denomination A religious sub-group Religious subgroups
Experienced rapid growth during SGA
Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Mormons, etc…

17. How did the Second Great Awakening lead to the growth of new Christian denominations?
Baptist churches grew because they reflected the evangelical zeal of the SGA.
Methodism was well suited to frontier life and appealed to the common people
Unitarianism offered hope and appealed to reason
Mormanism also gained popularity

18. Significance of the Second Great Awakening
Experienced by the whole country making it a collective cultural experience
Made it easier for regular people to hear Christianity, the prominent religion in the U.S. at the time.