The Glorious Revolution in America

1. The Glorious Revolution in America • Changed the balance of power in England’s government. • Parliament assumed greater control over the nation and its overseas territories. • In 1685, King James II attempted to increase royal control by combining New York, New Jersey, and the New England colonies into the Dominion of New England. • He was also appointing Catholics to positions of power & was seen to be favoring Catholicism even though he was the head of the church of England.

2. The Glorious (and bloodless) Revolution… • 1689 - Parliament invites James II Protestant daughter, Mary and her husband William to rule England • But…they must obey parliament’s wishes • They accept James II flees • He didn’t die so it was bloodless • Divine Right to Rule is DEAD! • Will & Mary sign the Bill of Rights to signal their “okay” We, William and Mary Of Orange Do hereby recognize Parliament as the Real power

3. OUTCOMES of the Glorious Revolution: • Destroyed the idea or divine-right (absolute) monarchy in England • The revolution established that the ultimate power in the state was divided between monarch and parliament and the monarch ruled with the consent of the governed • A constitutional monarchy was formed with the making of the document known as the English Bill Of Rights • No taxes raised or armies recruited without approval of Parliament • No subject can be detained without due process • King cannot suspend laws on his own • Reality… is that the government is run by male property owners • Exciting Time! “the rights of Englishmen!”

4. The Enlightenment • A movement in the 1700’s that rejected traditional ways of life and looked for a more rational and scientific way to explain the world we live in • It was an emphasis on the sciences and reason to explain things

5. Enlightenment Arguments • Generally we are good and it is our environment that influences us • The use of science and reason could answer life’s mysteries • Science and reason could also answer man’s questions concerning government and himself

6. Outcomes of the Enlightenment • Great surge of literacy in the colonies • Newspapers and book publications increase • Schools are synonymous with new towns and villages • Deism, God is the great clock maker

7. Outcomes of the Enlightenment • People are born with natural rights • Government has an obligation to protect those natural rights • Kings have no right to govern people, people empower government

8. Sermons of Raw Emotion: The Great Awakening Reasons for The Great Awakening Sermons of Raw Emotion The Out Comes of The Awakening

9. The Great Awakening 1730-1740 gave colonists a shared national religious experience

10. Reasons for The Great Awakening • People felt that religion was dry, dull and distant • Preachers felt that people needed to be concerned with inner emotions as opposed to outward religious behavior • People in New England can read and interrupt the Bible on their own

11. George Whitefield • Puritan Minster who used raw emotional sermons to reach all classes of colonists • Preached that “good works” and “godly lives” would bring you salvation • Forced to give sermons in open areas (revivals)

12. Jonathan Edwards a Puritan Minster terrified listeners with his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

13. Outcomes of the Great Awakening • Birth of deep religious convictions in the colonies • New churches built to accommodate new members • New Lights • Old Lights • Colleges founded found to train new ministers

14. Outcomes of the Great Awakening • Encouraged ideas of equality and right to challenge authority • Birth of charity and charitable organizations • played a key role in the development of democratic thought • as well as the belief of the free press and the belief that information should be shared and completely unbiased and uncontrolled. 

15. VIDEOS • Great Awakening • CC • John Locke