Section 4 Emerging Tensions

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Chapter 3

• Section 4 Emerging Tensions

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Western Expansion

• Mid 1700s population doubled every 25 years
• Immigrants
• Started coming from Ireland Germany
• Started to move west for more land
• migration

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Native American French Reaction

• Native Americans
• Ohio Susquehanna River valleys lived the
  Delaware, Shawnee, Huron
• Forced to move westward
• Mid 1700s disease wars took a toll on Natives

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• Southern frontier the Cherokees, Creeks,
  Chicksaws created a powerful barrier to westward
  expansion
• French Actions
• Sent defenders to strengthen the Detroit
  settlement seize the Ohio valley
• Built Fort Presque Isle (Erie) attacked
  killed the men defending an English trading post
  in the Ohio valley

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• Whoever controlled the forks of where the Ohio,
  Allegheny, Monongahela rivers meet could
  dominate the entire region

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Religious Tensions

• The Great Awakening
• 1730s 1740s- Congregationalists led a series
  of revivals designed to renew religious
  enthusiasm commitment
• Sought to remind people of the power of God the
  authority of ministers

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• Energized people to speak for themselves to
  rely less on the traditional authority of
  ministers books
• Ministers preached that any Christian could have
  a personal relationships with Christ

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Churches reorganize

• New England change to Baptist
• Southern Baptist Methodist
• Celebration of ordinary people
• Drew people at the middle or bottom of colonial
  society

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• Great Awakening had long term social political
  affects
• Attacked the idea that some people are better
  than others
• Many denominations split