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The Great Awakening and The Enlightenment - Notes | His 105, Study notes of World History

Material Type: Notes; Class: The United States to 1877; Subject: History; University: University of Mississippi Main Campus; Term: Unknown 1989;

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The Great Awakening
& The Enlightenment :
Two major movements
of the 18th century
(one intellectual, the other religious)
helped the people of the American
colonies become more like each
other than like Englishmen
& helped prepare them for
the possibility of revolution
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The Great Awakening

& The Enlightenment

Two major movements

of the 18

th

century

(one intellectual, the other religious)

helped the people of the American

colonies become more like each

other than like Englishmen

& helped prepare them for

the possibility of revolution

The Great Awakening

(1730s – 1760s)

Especially popular among yeoman

farmers, the urban and rural poor,

free blacks, and slaves.

Rationalism
  • universal laws
Deism
  • clockmaker god
Humanism
  • “Know then thyself, presume not Godto scan;

the proper study of Mankind is

Man

(Alexander Pope, 1733)

  • Perfectibility of Man -
Tabula Rasa

Largely a movement of the educated and

the upper class.

Enlightenment (the Age of Reason) 1690s – 1770s

:

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

  • Doctrine of

Natural Rights

(life, liberty, and property)

  • Government = balance between

natural liberty and tyranny

Consent of the Governed

John Locke

  • Politicalphilosopher–
Two Treatises of
Government

(1690)

!

justified England’s

“GloriousRevolution”

(1688)

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Liberal Feminism

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of theRights of Woman

(1792)

Judith Sargent

Murray

(Constantia)

The Gleaner

(1792)

  • Argued that lack of

education, not nature, wasresponsible for femaleinferiority

  • Advocated equal rights

for women based onnatural rights and theperfectibility of [wo]man.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

Thomas Jefferson

the leading Enlightenedphilosopher in thecolonies as well as a

Hated slavery

, but:

  • believed blacks tobe child-like• believed in thesanctity of property• was heavily in debt
  • lawyer, planter, writer,musician, architect,scientist, politician,ambassador, president