11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the
founding of America, its lasting moral, social, and
political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.
1. Describe the contributions of various religious groups to American civic
principles and social reform movements (e.g., civil and human rights, individual
responsibility and the work ethic, antimonarchy and self-rule, worker protection,
family-centered communities).
2. Analyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the
First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening, the Civil War revivals, the
Social Gospel Movement, the rise of Christian liberal theology in the nineteenth
century, the impact of the Second Vatican Council, and the rise of Christian
fundamentalism in current times.
3. Cite incidences of religious intolerance in the United States (e.g., persecution of
Mormons, anti-Catholic sentiment, anti-Semitism).
4. Discuss the expanding religious pluralism in the United States and California that
resulted from large-scale immigration in the twentieth century.
5. Describe the principles of religious liberty found in the Establishment and Free
Exercise clauses of the First Amendment, including the debate on the issue of
separation of church and state.
11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting
moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.
How has Religion impacted the development of the United
States?
1. What are the basic facts related to religion in the colonial period?
Diversity of Religions = religious pluralism
English Religion- Protestants
Puritans- Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay- intolerant
Quakers- Pennsylvania- William Penn- tolerance for other religions
christians
Maryland- Roman Catholics- Lord Baltimore
Rhode Island- Roger Williams- Tolerant- wanted Religious freedom
2. How are religious values reflected in the American culture and government?
Culture:
Civil and human rights (anti-slavery)
Family-centered communities
Individual responsibility
Work ethic= prosperity= Puritans
Government: Anti-monarchy
Self-rule
Equality
Religious liberty
Written Law- 10 Commandments
First Amendment to the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof;…”
Separation of Church and State=
 the government can not be associated with a religion The government can not force a religion or prohibit religions.
 Government and religion must remain separate.
3. How did the Religious revivals of the First and Second Great Awakening impact
American culture?
Revivals
First Great Awakening
Second Great Awakening
4. Religion in American has not always been positive. How have Americans responded
to “Other Religions?”
Sectarian (Religious) Intolerance
Mormons
Anti-Catholic sentiment,
Anti-Semitism
Reading
Ch 1 Exploration and Colonial Era (pages 24-28)- Puritans, Rhode Island, Quakers of PA
Ch 1 The Great Awakening (page 35-36)
Ch 3 Sec 5 Reform Movements
Prior Knowledge:
1. What is the status of religion in the US today?
(Facts that you know about religion in America today.)
2. What is the nature of Religion and politics/government and their interaction?
3. We are going to learn about the foundation of Religion in America:
Prior Knowledge:
4. What is the status of religion in the US today?
(Facts that you know about religion in America today.)
 *Separation between church and state = Gov is not supposed to make laws
about religion
 *First Amendment to the Constitution:
 *“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…”
 Many people vote based on religious beliefs.
 People have a right to choose and practice their own religion
 People pray
 Christianity is the largest religion in the US
 Types of Religions = there are many religions- diverse
Catholic, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jehovah Witness, Islam (Muslim),
Anglican, Evangelic, Rastafarian, Satanism, Mormons, Judaism (Jewish),
Protestants, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Baptists, Southern Baptists, 7th Day Adventist,
Amish,
Polytheism= more than one god.
Monotheism= only one god
Deism- god existed and then left.
Cult= religion
 Religion is reflected in American Law = 10 Commandments –
Thou shalt not kill,
Thou shalt not steal…(8 more)
What is the nature of Religion and Government, politics, and their interaction?
Freedom of Religion First Amendment says government can not control,
establish, prohibit religious beliefs.
People vote based on religious ideas.
Separation of Church and state
We are going to learn about the foundation of Religion in America:
 Christian beliefs are the foundation of American culture
11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting
moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.
Test
1. How has Religion impacted the development of the United States?
What are the basic facts related to religion in the colonial period?
2. How are religious values reflected in the American culture and government?
Culture:
Government:
3. How did the Religious revivals of the First and Second Great Awakening impact
American culture?
4. Religion in America has not always been positive. How have Americans responded
to “Other Religions?”
Key Terms:
1. Diversity of Religions = religious
pluralism
2. English Religion- Protestants
3. Puritans (pg 24)
4. John Winthrop
5. “Shinning City upon a Hill”
6. “Sinners in the hands of an angry God”
7. Church of England
8. Presbyterians
9. Maryland = Refuge for Roman
Catholics
10. Pennsylvania-Quakers
11. Religious Values in Government
12. Anti-monarchy
13. Self-rule
14. Equality
15. Religious liberty
16. Civil and human rights
17. Abolition of Slavery
18. (anti-slavery)
Religious Values in Culture:
Family-centered communities
Individual responsibility
Work ethic
First Great Awakening (pg 35)
Evangelism
Jonathan Edwards
Abolition
Second Great Awakening
Sectarian (Religious) Intolerance
Mormons (pg. 131)
Anti-Catholic sentiment (142)
Anti-Semitism
Reading
Ch 1 Exploration and Colonial Era (pages 24-28)- Puritans, Rhode Island, Quakers of PA
Ch 1 The Great Awakening (page 35-36)
Ch 3 Sec 5 Reform Movements-(page 144) Second Great Awakening, Unitarians
Ch 3 Sec 3 Manifest Destiny (Mormons pg. 131)
11.3 Students analyze the role religion played in the founding of America, its lasting
moral, social, and political impacts, and issues regarding religious liberty.
Essential Question
How has Religion impacted the development of the United States?
1. What are the basic facts related to religion in the colonial period?
2. How are religious values reflected in the American culture and government?
Culture:
Government:
3. How did the Religious revivals of the First and Second Great Awakening impact
American culture?
4. Religion in America has not always been positive. How have Americans responded
to “Other Religions?”
Study Guide Religion in America
Summarize Bullet Point Information Regarding the following:
1. Diversity of
Religions
2. Pluralism
3. English ReligionProtestants
4. Puritans
5. John Winthrop
6. “A Shinning City
Upon a Hill”
7. “Sinners in the
hands of an angry
God”
8. Jonathan Edwards
9. Maryland =
Refuge for
Roman Catholics
10. Pennsylvania
Quaker
11. Religious Values
in Government
12. Civil and human
rights
13. Abolition of
Slavery
14. Religious Values
in Culture:
15. Work ethic
16. First Great
Awakening
17. Evangelism
18. Second Great
Awakening
19. Religious
Intolerance
20. Mormons (pg.
131)
21. Joseph Smith
22. Anti-Catholic
sentiment (142)
23. Anti-Semitism