Beginnings of an American Identity

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Beginnings of anAmerican Identity

• Chapter 5

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Education

• Am. The most _______ population in hx.
• NE towns required to provide schooling
• By 1750 many colleges founded, primarily to train
  ministers
• exception UofP

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Religious RevivalThe Great Awakening

• Puritans priorities changed - ________
  _______________________________
• New preachers _________ involvement, feel
  _______ and need ______, very popular
• Churches split,
• ____ Churches
• ___________

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Enlightenment Defined

• enlightenment   noun U1 the state of
  understanding something
• 3 the Enlightenment the period in the 18th
  century in Europe, when many people began to
  ___________ the importance of _______ and ______,
  rather than ______ and ____________(from
  Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
• http//dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key257
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18th Century PhilosophyEuropean Enlightenment

• Emphasis on reason and logic
• Social progress people friendly politics
• John Locke was a political philosopher
• If _________ ______ were logical and could be
  discovered or uncovered (gravity) then so
  should there be discoverable / uncoverable
  ___________ / __________ laws.

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Natural Rights according to Locke

• All men possess or are granted these by the
  Creator (among these are . . .)
• 1
• 2
• 3
• Problem the study of history shows these rights
  have often been _____________

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Science Social Enlightenment

• Less reliance on Religious Authority (But not
  __________)
• Looked to ______/______, fixed mathematical
  natural laws
• Philosophers applied logic/reason to discovering
  laws for Human interactions

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Roots of Representative Govt

• Magna Carta
• Parliament
• Colonies too far away from England, elect
  _______________
• Royal Governors set precedent of working with
  local assemblies

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Troubles in New England

• King Charles cancels Charter of NE colonies
• King James 1685 attempts more control
• Gov Edmund Andros of NE disbanded local
  assemblies
• Colonies __________ to pay taxes

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The Glorious Revolution

• King James attempted to pack Parliament
  w/pro-Catholics
• 1688 Protestants offered throne to William Mary
• WM agreed to Eng BOR
• Could not cancel rights w/o Parl consent
• In NE, colonists jailed Gov Andros and appeal to
  have charter restored

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Shared Power in the Colonies

• King appoints Govrs
• Governor
• Final
• Oversees
• Appoints Council
• Acts
• Can dismiss
• Elected Assemblies
• Made laws
• Paid Govrs salary

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Zenger, Freedom of the Press

• Read Play
• Freedom of the Press to print the truth even if
  hurtful to politicians reputation.