US History

US History

This Discussion’s focus is on how colonists responded to the rising cosmopolitianism of the 1700s and the rising presence of Great Britain. The American colonies had evolved in relative isolation from Britain, but for economic, political, and military reasons. the two sides could no longer leave each other alone. Americans were both attracted to and repelled by the new British-driven consumer economy spawned around 1700. Around that time a Boston Puritan, Samuel Sewall, complained about the exotic fads sweeping his cities youth, especially the new French-inspired custom of men wearing wigs. (A century later, crusty conservatives would complain about the new liking for short hair, inspired by the French Revolution). Other Americans of the 1700s criticized the ostentatiously wealthy “high fliers,” contrasting them with the rugged simplicity of the “true” American. Indeed, growing fashion and consumption distinctions inflated social tensions and tormented community-minded Americans of the North.

Reinforcing this division was a religious split between a growing body of clergymen, and their well-to-do audiences, who were attracted to the science of the Enlightenment, and many other clergymen and church members who wanted to restore the old-time Puritan Christianity. The Great Awakening, which was so popular with farmers and lower-class city dwellers, intensified the antagonisms–even in nostalgic Concord, Massachusetts.

Questions (choose ONE) – Write and post an essay, 275 – 400 words long:
1.
Describe the feelings and convictions that made the First Great Awakening of the early 1700s so popular (Suggestions: refer to the Cole and Edwards excepts).

2.
Compare the spirit of the Enlightenment with that of the Great Awakening (suggestions: the Newton excerpt and Edwards’ famous sermon)

3.
Describe two or three democratic influences at work among Americans even before the confrontations with Britain of the 1760s and 1770s (suggestions: refer to the English Bill of Rights, the Penn. charter of 1701, Cole’s observations, and the Crevecoeur work–even though it was written in 1782).

4.
In what ways were the Thirteen Colonies becoming more involved with Britain, and vice-versa, in the first half of the 1700s (refer to Franklin and the trade map)?

 

 

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