HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Toleration, Holy Club, Middle Colonies
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First colonial event that gave colonies a more common ground to talk about a religious and cultural event. The great awakening: beginnings: transatlantic connections. Reaches the middle colonies and the south. Much of the population was in coastal regions. George whitefield: a central figure to the great awakening, born in gloucester, england in 1714. Born to a middle-class family (by today"s standards) Family owned property, an inn/bar; were on the edge of gentility: family circumstances. Father died relatively young; family thrown into disorganization. Mother doesn"t initially remarry; decides to run inn herself with her young children. George was to be the one to pull the family back up; had the most promise: early education. Wasn"t a very good student for greek or latin. Excelled at public speaking, an important part of education: learned through acting in plays, though acting as a profession wasn"t very respectable. A university education was a rarity at the time.
