1720s and 1820a :: American History

In the 1720s to the 1820s there were several events, changes, and swear outes that occurred in America. The three events I am choosing to analyze are The Great Awakening, The Revolution, and The Market Economy. Each one of these events had a cultural, social and economic aspect. Each one of these events had antithetical impacts and was manifested in several different ways. The first event I will be analyzing is The Great Awakening. The Great Awakening cut across lines of class, status, and education (Boyer Bonds of imperium, P. 86). The American Protestantism was split (Boy Bonds of imperium, P. 87). In 1741 Old and New Light Presbyterians formed rival branches that reunited in 1758 when the revivalists emerged victorious (Boyer Bonds of Empire, P. 87). Members of Anglican churches started leaving and going to New Light Presbyterians and Baptists (Boyer Bonds of Empire, P. 87). The Great Awakening stimulated the founding of new colleges unscarred by religious wars (Boyer Bond s of Empire, P. 87). With the Great awakening for the cultural effect was that they found different churches for others to go to and enjoyed more. They also found colleges that are really well-known colleges today. The next event I chose to analyze is The Revolution.During the Revolution, there were social changes that affected several different races, classes and genders. The intravenous feeding groups that the Revolution had an effect on the social changes were white men, White women, Black Americans, and Native Americas. With the Revolution effecting the white men by wearing homespun article of clothing in support of boycotts of British goods (Boyer, Defining Nationhood, p. 128). When the Virginia planters organized militia companies in 1775, they wore plain hunting shirts so that they didnt embarrass the poorest farmer for his clothes so that they could enlist (Boyer, Defining Nationhood, p. 128). While men were out in the war the women stayed home and managed families, househ olds, farms and businesses on their own (Boyer, Defining Nationhood, P. 129). For the Black Americans, it started to show others that slavery was non a good thing. The war, nevertheless, presented new opportunities to African-Americans (Boyer, Defining Nationhood, P. 130). The slaves were even trying to escape as all the confusion that was going on and pose as a freeman (Boyer, Defining Nationhood, p. 130). Even though the Revolution showed new opportunities to the African-Americans it didnt end slavery nor brought equality to free blacks, but it did begin a process by which slavery could be extinguished (Boyer Defining Nationhood, p.