1. Religion

2. Background Middle Ages; religion important
led to development of colonies

3. Colonies
Religion played direct role in the settlement of 5 colonies

4. Religion – tolerance and intolerance
Roger Williams – 1636 Rhode Island
most colonies no laws
Maryland Toleration Act 1649

5. The exception
Massachusetts – enough Puritans to be picky

6. Decline of importance concern turned to peace and prosperity
how one worshipped less important
Glorious Revolution – 1688 William and Mary
Toleration Act of 1689

7. established churches (official or supported by taxes)
9/13 had established church
None

8. established churches (official or supported by taxes)
9/13 had established church VA, GA, NC, SC, MD, NY
Puritan MA, CT, NH
Anglican
Puritan
None
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

9. Changing ideas Separation of Church and State apathy frontier
lack of ministers

10. deism philosophy – man controls his destiny popular among colonists
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.

11. Great Awakening spread through south
speakers came talked to people at their level
made religion intensely personal to the average person by creating a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption

12. Old Lights New lights Old Lights v New Lights Rational Appeal
Educated Ministry
Established Classes
Emotional Appeal
Converted Ministry
Dispossessed Classes
Old Lights v New Lights

13. George Whitefield (Methodist) Itinerant ministers Great orator
no class, gender, race differences
Everyone is a sinner

14. Jonathan Edwards
(Congregationalist {Puritan/Calivinist}) Presbyterian
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Reject doctrine and ritual