HIST 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: American Philosophical Society, Pietism, Benjamin Wadsworth
16 May 2016
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Chapter 4 growth and crisis in colonial society 1720-1765. Rapid increase of white settlers and african slaves, overcrowded in new england, and ethnic and religious communities jostled in the middle atlantic colonies. The european movements of the enlightenment and pietism changed intellectual and spiritual life. Migrants and landless children of long settles families moved inland sparking wars with. Natives, france, and spain: freehold society in new england. New england puritans created yeomen society, consisting primarily of freeholders, or land owning farm families: farm families: women and the rural household economy. Reverend benjamin wadsworth of boston advised women in the well-ordered. Family (1712) being richer, more intelligent, or of higher social status than their husbands didn"t matter. Many more women than men prosecuted for fornication. Parents got less for daughter"s marriages than for son"s. Women did not have an equal role in the church. Quaker and baptists churches allowed women to become spiritual leaders: farm property: inheritance.
