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Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of ...

All of you today. And as we have already discussed in this class, we know that the early american republic, which we are roughly defining as the period between the end of the American Revolution and the election of andrew jackson, was a period of possibilities and of problems. It was a time in American History when many of the Big Questions about what the nation would look like, we would hold power, and what kind of spaces and values we define that country remained very much in question. And so last class we talked about americas transition to capitalism. And we talked about how this Economic ...

Swept through the colonies. Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the...

And values would define the country. Remained very much in question. And so last class we talked about americas transition to capitalism. And we talked about how this Economic Transformation was linked to changes in the labor market in Banking Systems in the rise of corporations, and we looked at how these transformations were particularly affecting for young women like mary paul the worker in the lowell mills in the 1840s. So today were going to continue our conversation about how economic changes affected americas urban centers its cities and well examine how questions about the National Bui...

Happening in 18th Century America with regard to religion. Weve talked about some of this already before in class about the scope of religion and religious commitment across the colonies. If you look first at the southern colonies from maryland down to georgia, mostly what we have is a formal commitment to the church of england. And the church of england, of course, is the National Official church of england, of britain, and most of those colonies adopt what we would call a kind of formal establishment of the church of england. But the southern colonies overall are probably the least religious...