Spread of New Ideas Flashcards
What is something about N.E. schools?
Public schools- funded by tax dollars
• Any town with more than 50 families must have a school
• Dames schools also existed for girls
What is something about Middle colonies schools?
Some public but mostly private
• Only wealthy children would attend schools
What is something about Southern schools?
Private tutors lived in house
Which college became the first college? Who could attend the college?
Harvard. Only boys could attend.
What did Anne Bradstreet do?
1st colonial poet
• Wrote about joys and hardships of colonial living
What did Phyllis Wheatley do?
- She was enslaved and learned to write
* The first colonial poet of African descent
What did Benjamin Franklin do?
- Wrote the Pennsylvania Gazette (newspaper)
* Wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack (cartoons, sayings, info)
What was the cause of the Great Awakening?
People began to not practice their faith as they
once did
What was the effect of the Great Awaking ?
Effect: Great Awakening
• If you do not change your ways, you’re cast into Hell
• Large Tent Meetings (Masses) in which people gathered for
hours
• People often brought to tears due to sermons
• INTENSE
• But a bigger Effect is about to happen
This lead to religious toleration
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
- Wrote the sermon- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
* Was the most famous of all the preachers
Who was George Whitefield?
- An English preacher who visited the colonies
* Would give intense sermons similar to Edwards
How did the Great Awakening impact church?
- Created many new churches and small churches to grow
* EX: Methodists and Baptists started to spread
How did the Great Awakening impact religion?
• Created Religious Toleration
• With many new churches, there was more toleration because people belonged to
different churches
• What was important was that you loved God, how you worshipped was your choice
What was the 1st Movement in America?
The 1st
Movement in America
• If people could choose how to worship, then why couldn’t they choose how to govern
themselves?
• Borrowed Ideas
• John Locke- Idea of Natural Rights
• Baron de Montesquieu- Separation of Powers
