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American culture and identity (American Identity (Challanges (1863-70…
American culture and identity
Main ideas
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Early religious settelment
British American (1600s)
Puritan English
Money and education
Roger Williams
Ideals of separation of church and state
Expelled
Escaped to Rhode Island
Freedom of religion
:star: Into the US' Bill of Rigths
The Great Awakening (1730-50)
Jonathan Edwards "sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741)
Preast
Wanted people to belive (konvertere)
1749 removed from his church
His belive became more like a cult
Science
People ledds/ moves away from God
Secon Great Awakening (1790s-1850)
Hawthorne "The Minister's Black Weil" (1836)
Mormonism founded 1830-38
Joseph Smith
What kind of Christianity was this?
Calvinist
Named after Johan Calvin (French Potestant)
American Identity
Assimilation
Imigrated
Distence themselvs from there backgrounds
Challanges
Melting-pot ideology
The Irish "problem"
Brits saw the Irish as uncivilizatoon
Establishing Americanness
1619
First African slave brouth to British colonies in N.America
1754-63
French and Indian wars (Seven Year War)
1607 onwards
Encounters with Native Ami
Christian culture was superior
1775-83
War of Independence
Challanges
1863-70
california pacific railroad brought many Chinese
1875
Page act
Banning Chinese women (deemed immoral)
1849
Gold rush bring trans-continental
To the west coast (unpopulated area)
1882
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Was in place until 1943
1840s
Irish Potato Blight
Crops failure
Almost a milion imigrated to the US
Catholic Know-nothing political party is created