Similarities Between The Great Awakening And The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment is the era were the intellectual, scientific and individual freedom, centered upon the 18th Century; there were many important people of this time that brought forth many new concepts. For example, Benjamin Franklin, he brought many new inventions to this era, such as the Poor Richards’ Almanac, lightening rod, harmonica, and his own thought on the Christian outlook. Secondly, Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of nature such as, gravitation. Third, the most well known religious revival was brought forth, The Great Awakening, which put a fire in many people during the 18th Century. During the 18th Century, Benjamin Franklin, Sir Isaac Newton, and The Great Awakening goes to show the intellectual, scientific and individual

freedom that was brought forth throughout the Enlightenment Era.

4. The Great Awakening was a spiritual revival that swept across the country around the early 18th century and again in the 19th century. A remarkable spiritual revelation occurred under Jonathan Edwards’ congregation. Also, another distinguished leader was the great, George Whitfield. They were both selfless promoters of Christian revivalism who focused on the centers of the emotions in spiritual life. The Great Awakening undermined many of the established churches beliefs, but it also gave more religious choices for this time period. It ended around the 1750s but it and the Enlightenment both set in motion many of the traditions that America still uses.

6.

The Virginia Plan was written by James Madison and was proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention where they talked about completely rewriting a new version of the Articles of Confederation. One of the ideas that was brought forth that we still use today is that the three branches of government be separated and a national government that makes the laws for citizens and states. Secondly, we see that the congress would be divided into a lower and upper house; whereas the lower house is chosen by the citizens and the upper house is chosen by the senators. Then lastly, we see that the Constitution established specifically a chief of justice and allowing congress to decided however many justices. There were many debates and proposals brought forth to try and appease everyone; however, the separation of branches, the division of the houses, and declaring a single chief justice were three factors that we see strongly in our government today. Although, the original Virginia Plan isn’t exactly what was passed it has still shown great success in our country

today.

9.

The southern states were all tied together, but they each had there own economic priorities and there own view and importance on slavery. First, the Lower South (South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) there focus ands main crop production was cotton; therefore concluding that slavery in the Lower South was highly important to their productivity. Next, the Middle South (Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas) had many different agricultural needs and many jobs spread throughout the area reducing the need for slavery in this region. Lastly, The Upper or Border South (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri) slavery was beginning to decrease. The Lower South definitely favored slavery more than other regions, but they needed the slaves for all the cotton that there producing; the entire South had one thing in common and that was that they were against doing away with slavery. Therefore, the Old South was trying to increase slavery while the Union was trying to do away with, which led to the Confederate States of America in

1861.

10. In the late mid to late 1800s slave women and how fertile they were became increasingly important to slave holders because they could sell the offspring and have a larger profit. To a slave women, who was young and fertile her workload was “light” she would be sewing, spinning, or weaving. Secondly, not only would the slave have an easy workload she would often get rewarded with new dresses, more food, or even silver dollars. However, once the women was past her childbearing years her workload would increase significantly by going to work in the fields; if the women was much elder she would be responsible for taking care of the children who were to small to work or be sold. Granted it seemed like being fertile was easier but not always, the women would fall into sexual abuse by the other slave men and masters or seduction from the master. Therefore, the more fertile the women were the easier the workload was but they fell subject to torture when it came to sexual abuse.