History 270: The United States to 1865
Spring Semester 1999 - Dr. Thomas R. Maddux
Lecture Outline
Left Wing English Society

  1. 18th Century Colonial Society
    1. Eastern coastal settlement vs. Backcountry
    2. Colonial Elite: Opportunity, Families, Poltical Dominance
    3. Imitation of English Culture
    4. Enlightenment Ideas
      1. Natural order with laws from God
      2. Natural rights and John Locke
      3. 18th Century Commonwealth men
      4. Cotton Mather and small pox
      5. Benjamin Franklin and good works
    5. Great Awakening
      1. Religious revival of the 1740s: George Whitefield
      2. Regain original Puritan community
      3. New Birth and evangelical ideology vs. rationalists and worldly success
      4. Jonathan Edwards and Issac Backus

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