Click HERE to listen to Week 4 Powerpoint Lecture on Religious Strife and Social Upheavals

Religious Strife and Social Upheavals – Powerpoint Video

Also, read Chapter 5 – Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774 (Links to an external site.) – and submit a text response to two of the following questions by Friday, September 18th at midnight.

Requirements: The response must be AT LEAST 200 words and double spaced, and make clear which TWO questions you are responding to please.

This a low-stakes assignment, meaning that I want you to start thinking about these questions and preparing for answering complex historical questions on the exams.

How did patriarchal ideals of family and community shape life and work in colonial America? What happened when men failed to live up to those ideals?

How did social, economic, and political tensions contribute to an increase in accusations of witchcraft?

What was the relationship between the Enlightenment and the religious revivals of the early eighteenth century?

What was the immediate impact of the Great Awakening, and what were its legacies for American relgious and social life?

How did ordinary colonists, both and men, black and white, express their political opinions and preferences in the first half of the eighteenth century?

History is filled with unintended consequences. How do the British government’s attempts to control and regulate the colonies during this tumultuous era provide a case in point? How did the aims of the British measure up against the results of their actions?

What evidence indicates that colonists continued to think of themselves as British subjects throughout this era? What evidence suggests that colonists were beginning to forge a separate, collective “American” identity? How would you explain this shift?

owerpoint Lecture [TO BE UPLOADED VERY SOON]

Also, read Chapter 5 – Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774 – and submit a text response to two of the following questions by Friday, September 18th at midnight.

This a low-stakes assignment, meaning that I want you to start thinking about these questions and preparing for answering complex historical questions on the exams.

How did patriarchal ideals of family and community shape life and work in colonial America? What happened when men failed to live up to those ideals?

How did social, economic, and political tensions contribute to an increase in accusations of witchcraft?

Why did the colonists react so much more strongly to the Stamp Act than to the Sugar Act? How did the principles that the Stamp Act raised continue to provide points of contention between colonists and the British government?

History is filled with unintended consequences. How do the British government’s attempts to control and regulate the colonies during this tumultuous era provide a case in point? How did the aims of the British measure up against the results of their actions?

What evidence indicates that colonists continued to think of themselves as British subjects throughout this era? What evidence suggests that colonists were beginning to forge a separate, collective “American” identity? How would you explain this shift