5/7 7 PM Review Session

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