AMERICAN RELIGION

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AMERICAN RELIGION GOVERNMENT DURING
COLONIZATION Preview Write a response to all 4
questions on your next left page in your spiral

• What do YOU think makes people good at heart?
• What makes people generally do the right thing
  for others?
• Is there any one thing that can change a bad
  person to a good person?
• What is your motivation for doing whats right?
• Is virtue important in a society? Is religion?

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Our objectives

• Process
• Describe how religion and virtue contributed to
  the development of self government in the 13
  colonies using a KWL chart.

• Get Organized
• Tape the KWL chart on your next right page.

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Sweet Virginia

• Home of the House of Burgesses, the first
  representative assembly in America. Voted to
  support Anglican Church.
• Economic not religious colony
• Anglican Church (Church of England) was colonial
  church. Colonists paid taxes that went to church.

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Migration to Massachusetts

• Pilgrims first at Plymouth.
• Mayflower Compact gave every man an equal vote.
• Puritan migration took over Plymouth, established
  Massachusetts Bay which becomes Boston.
• Based society on Bible city upon a hill
• Puritan Work Ethic if you work hard, you will
  be rewarded and be successfulwhether youre a
  servant, a fisherman, anythingyour success is
  dependent upon your work habitsidea still around
  today.

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Puritans Settled in New England

• Massachusetts First
• Bible Centered
• Church Centered
• Town Meetings
• Intolerant of Other Faiths
• Many moved to Connecticut (Hooker) and Rhode
  Island (Williams) to escape persecution more
  accepting of others differences

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Catholics Established Colony in Maryland

• Act of Toleration
• Accepted Catholics and Protestants alike
• Protestants actually outnumbered Catholics
• Freedom of Religion

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Quakers

• Believed that every individual had an inner
  light that could guide him or her to salvation
• All were equal in Gods eyes respected American
  Indians rights to land
• Church is unnecessary
• Fighting is wrongrefused to participate in
  military
• Anti slavery
• Society of Friends
• William Penn

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Settled in Pennsylvania and other Middle Colonies

• William Penns Great Experiment
• City of Brotherly LovePhiladelphia
• Spread to New York, New Jersey, and Delaware

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Other events

• Great Awakening religious revival spread across
  the colonies.
• Religious beliefs allowed people to see each
  other equallyif people are equal before God,
  then
• For some, equality meant equality for others
  equality meant some equality
• Racial inequity, sexual inequity

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