Religion
Persecution between Protestants and Catholics
Tension in Europe
America becomes an avenue for different branches of Christianity to prosper
Non-conformists are called Heretics
Roger Williams
Puritans make up a large part of modern American psychology
Large influx of Quakers into US from Germany
Virginia is only state to have an anti-Quaker slant
Executions of Quakers
Many came to PA
William Penn of Pennsylvania makes it a Quaker colony
Dissenters
Ann Hutchinson
Anti-nomianism
Faith in God is more important than the clergy
Church is less important than spirituality
Influx of Jewish population
Not welcome in the South...or anywhere else
House of Burgesses
First colonial style government
Made religious laws
Most universities began as religious institutions
Harvard
Development of Unitariasm
Jefferson, Franklin
First Great Awakening
Mid-1740's
New Lights/Old Lights
New Lighters believe in a split between the congregational and presbyterian church
Seperate kinds of baptisms can be chosen
Development of Methodism, Presbyterianism
Second Great Awakening
Women and African Americans join up
Emersion of African American church
Southern Baptists
Mormonism
Arose in the early 1800's
Founded by Joseph Smith
Starts in upstate New York
Travels around U.S., killed in 1840's, Brigham Young leads followers to Utah
Anti-Catholicism Political Parties Begin
Nativists
Know-Nothing
Militant offshoots like KKK begin
Kennedy is the first Catholic president
Anti-Semitism
Gains strength around the end of the Civil War
Ulysses Grant was a highly anti-semetic leader
Dismissed Jewish officers under his charge
Enlightenment
Same time as Second Great Awakening
Focus on creating scientific answers to questions previously answered with religion
Islam in America
1950's onward
Malcom X, Muhammed Ali
Popular in blacks, black nationalist movement
Woodrow Wilson
New kind of president
Former University professor
Leads U.S. into WWI
Wants to form League of Nation
Not supported by Senate
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Updates/Clarifies Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Louis Brandeis
First Jewish Supreme Court Justice
Very liberal
Opposed to "bigness"
Espionage and Sedition acts
Forbid criticism of the Government
1919 Temperance Union
Trying to get men back home and out of the bars
17th Amendment: Direct election of Senators
Marcus Garvey
"Time to go back to Africa"
Dawes Plan
Restructuring German finances