HIST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Awakening, Church Attendance, Evangelicalism
28 Sep 2017
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Lesson 6a - great awakenings, time changes, and a nation of goods. Defend the statement: the french and indian war and the stamp act fundamentally changed the way americans understood freedom. 3 important issues that are going on in the late colonial period when uniting colonies in a way that they haven"t been united before (1700-1760) Even though they are connected through this atlantic trade, they are still developing separate colonies. Ex: virginians thought of themselves as virginians, and not seeing themselves as fundamentally similar to those people in massachusetts. A religious movement that forms in new england but spreads throughout the colonies in the early 1700"s. Religion is taking a back seat especially in new england (people are more interested in economics/economic freedom) - church attendance declines. A debate that goes on between 2 di erent groups. First group: represents the older school of religion old lights .
