Aim: In eighteenth-century Europe, the leading principles were aristocracy, patriarchy, mercantilism, arranged marriages, legal privilege, and established churches. What principles would replace those societal rules in America's new republican society?
Bell Ringer: Pop Quiz 8.4
A. The diversity of religious denominations prevented lawmakers from agreeing on an.....
B. This religious revival made the United States a genuinely Christian society. Evangelical denominations began the revival in the 1790s, as they spread their message in seacoast cities and the backcountry of New England.
Objectives:
NAT-1.0: Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism found expression in the development of cultural values, political institutions, and American identity.
POL-2.0: Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society and institutions.
WOR-1.0: Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America.
Agenda:
1. CNN10 (current events)
PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY AS A SOCIAL FORCE
***Students should be able to describe how new religious ideas challenged Britain's traditional imperial systems***
2. A Republican Religious Order (CUL)
*Religious Freedom / established church
*Church State relations / volunarism
J52 / A: The main principles of the new republican religious regime included democracy; spiritual equality between white men, black men, and all women; free will; social reform; and an increase in female participation through benevolent societies.
*Republican Church Institutions / unchurched
CONTEXTUALIZATION: Use the section on Church-State Relations to discuss the First Amendment and the historical context for the relationship between church and state. Rather than completely separating church and state, as is commonly believed, the founding fathers sought to prevent established (tax-supported) churches but nonetheless largely sought to keep religion within the public sphere.
3. The Second Great Awakening (CUL)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGaqfZnxaRc (3 min)
*Figure 8.1 and Map 8.4
*A New Religious Landscape
4. Religions and Reform (CUL)
*J53 / A: Evangelical Baptists and Methodists developed an egalitarian religious culture marked by communal singing and emotional services. Evangelical ministers adopted "practical preaching" methods, theatrical gestures, and a flamboyant style to attract converts. African American churches developed as a complex mixture of stoical endurance and emotional fervor and encouraged slaves to affirm their spiritual equality with whites. Emotionalism and communalism were at the heart of evangelical and African American churches during the Second Great Awakening. Other Protestant churches were less emotional and less entertaining and attracted fewer converts. For example, the Protestant Episcopal Church was dominated by wealthy lay members, which made it less appealing for converts.
5. Women's New Religious Roles (NAT)
*women in the Awakening painting, p. 276
6. Journal 54 - How was the Second Great Awakening similar to, and different from, the Frist Great Awakening of the 1740s (chapter 4)?
(It is important that you understand Americans' struggle to match democratic political ideals to social realities. The Second Great Awakening fostered the rise of reform organizations that tried to address some of these social realities, such as abolition and women's rights)
note: The discussion on the connection between religion and reform in this chapter previews Chapter 11, which will focus on the widespread social reform movements such as abolitionism and temperance that grew of out the Second Great Awakening.
Terms to know: neomercantilist, Panic of 1819, Commonwealth System, sentimentalism, companionate marriage, demographic transition, republican motherhood, manumission, herrenvolk republic, American Colonization Society, Missouri Compromise, established church, voluntarism, Second Great Awakening.
Home Learning:
1. Read Thinking Like a Historian (p.252), Qs 1-4
Pop Quiz 8.4 answers:
A. established church
B. Second Great Awakening
Section Assignments:
A Republican Religious Order - Brandon
The Second Great Awakening - Suggi
Religion and Reform - Damariz
Women's New Religious Roles - Sasha
Chapter Summary - Sasha