New Religious, Philosophical, and
Political Currents
U.S. History to 1877
The Church of England in America
Hierarchy
and order
Control of
vestry by the elite
By 1750
strong and well-established across the South
The Great Awakening, 1735-1745
From
Puritan to Yankee
“Outlivers,”
greed, contention, guilt
“Fire
& brimstone” & “harvests”
“New
Lights” & “Old Lights”
Jonathan
Edwards
George
Whitefield
Baptist
growth
Evangelical
Calvinists
Evangelize
the South
Violent
opposition in Virginia
The Enlightenment in America
From Age
of Faith to Age of Reason
Reason
& nature
Science
& progress
Enlightenment
in Religion
Deism
Unitarianism
Benjamin
Franklin
International
hero of the Enlightenment
Political Ideas
Ideal:
monarchy, aristocracy, democracy
English
“constitution”
Crown,
Lords, Commons
Ministers
& Commons
“Rotten
boroughs” & “placemen”
Colonial
“constitutions”
Governor,
council, assembly
Factions
& paper power
Independent
assemblymen
Political Ideas
Liberty
vs. power
Corruption
Isolated
ruler
“Wicked
and worthless” wars
Taxation
without representation
No juries
Catholicism
STANDING
ARMIES
Wars and Empire
America in
Europe’s wars
3 major
French-English wars before 1750
French
& Indian War, 1754-63
A
different war
Washington
at Ft. Duquesne
Albany
Plan of Union, 1754
Gen.
Braddock at Ft. Duquesne
Pitt turns
the tide, 1758-62
Peace
End of New
France, 1763
Pontiac’s
Rebellion, 1763
English-American
relationship transforms
Proclamation
Line of 1763