Chapter 7 Section 1

Chapter 7 Section 1

Cultural, Social and Religious Life

What makes a society unique?

• Scholarship• Art• Education

Benjamin Rush

• Doctor• Scientist • Revolutionary• Represented PA in

Continental Congress

Charles Wilson Peale

• Artist

Phillis Wheatley

• Young enslaved woman from Senegal

• Became a poet

Republican virtues

• Self reliance• Hard work• Frugality• Harmony• Sacrificing for the good

of the community

Republican Woman

• One who had the virtues that would help her contribute to the success of the republic.

Social changes

• Population growth• Social mobility- people

were free to move place to place

Religious Renewal

• Second Great Awakening- Powerful religious movement from the early 1800s– Evangelical in nature

Evangelical

• The Bible is the final authority

• Salvation is achieved only through personal belief in Jesus Christ

• People demonstrate beliefs by living a “transformed lifestyle”

Congregation

• Members of the church– Focus was on the

congregation rather than the ministers• SGA was very democratic

because of this

Revival

• Common feature of SGA• Gathering where people

were “revived” or brought back to a religious life– Listening to preachers– Accepting Jesus

New Denominations

• Religious subgroups• Experienced rapid

growth during SGA

• Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Mormons, etc…

What were Republican Virtues, and why were they considered

important?

What factors drove population growth in the early 1800s?

How did the Second Great Awakening lead to the growth of

new Christian denominations?

Mercy Otis Warren

• Was Mercy Otis warren a good example of a “republican woman”? Why or why not?