Chapter 7 Section 1
Cultural, Social and Religious Life
What makes a society unique?
• Scholarship
• Art
• Education
Benjamin Rush
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Doctor
Scientist
Revolutionary
Represented PA in
Continental Congress
Charles Wilson Peale
• Artist
Phillis Wheatley
• Young enslaved woman
from Senegal
• Became a poet
Republican virtues
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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?