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Early American Culture. Opportunity and Identity. Land, Rights, and Wealth. Colonies thriving – in part due to the Navigation acts. Cheap land, lots of resources Anthology Pg 68 – Benjamin Franklin. Indian Removal. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Opportunity and Identity
Early American Culture
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Colonies thriving – in part due to the Navigation acts.
Cheap land, lots of resources
Anthology Pg 68 – Benjamin Franklin
Land, Rights, and Wealth
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By forcing Native Americans to hand over their claims to large tracts of land
- land became plentiful. As opposed to England where less then 5% of the population owned land.
Indian Removal
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With Land came what?
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Right to vote!
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Do we have classes in America?
HighMiddleLow
Class system
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Women preformed many of the duties around the house/farm.
- Made soap, candles, churned butter, cooked, made clothing, farmed, took care of animals, bartered. - little rights – essentially everything was males property. - Role in the church? Government?
Roles in the economy
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Did a lot of work around the house.Children would become apprentices around
your age. 11-14.
Essentially learned from an expert- and worked.
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Why were many children taught to read?Usually only the wealthy learned writing and
arithmetic. Literacy higher in Colonies than in EnglandHow might this play a role in unifying
colonies? - T Paine!
- Ben Franklin
Schooling and the Growth of Literacy
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Poor Richards Almanack by Ben FranklinPg 53-60The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by
Mary Rowlandson (prior to Salem witch trials)
Pg 69
Newspapers/ Books
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1730’s-40’s – religious movement.
Puritan decline?People leaving their religions, churches
breaking off and forming others.Lots of growth to Protestant religions.
The Great Awakening
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Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Both big names in the Great Awakening – priests, speakers…
Great awakening continued
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Emphasized reason and science.
John Locke
Ben Franklin
The Enlightenment
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Natural rights – today “Human Rights”
“Reason, teaches all who consult it, that being equal and independent, no one ought harm another in his life, liberty, health, and property.”
If government fails to protect those natural rights, the people have the right to change it.
RousseauHobbes
John Locke
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Challenged the idea that a king had the God-given right to rule
Ones power came from the consent of the governed
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John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes