Directions: These Questions Are Based on the Accompanying Documents

question 6

Essay

Directions: These questions are based on the accompanying documents.The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise.
In your response you should do the following:
•State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question.
•Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all,or all but one,of the documents.
•Incorporate analysis of all,or all but one,of the documents into your argument.
•Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: intended audience,purpose,historical context,and/or point of view.
•Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents.
•Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes.
•Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay that extends your argument,connects it to a different historical context,or accounts for contradictory evidence on the topic.
-In what ways,and to what extent,did religion shape American culture in the period from 1607-1754?
Document 1
his Bookes Two bibles
wooden boles platters dishes & pailes
5 platters 3 basons 5 plates 2 ale quarts worne
2 Iron potts 1 Iron Kettle
Three brass kettles 1 skillett
one Chest 2 Stooles 1 meal barrill 2 Spining wheels
1 dish 6 spoons 3 powdering Tubbs
old Cask 5 hogsheads 3 barrills & shaken Cask
Carpenters Tooles 3 Augers 2 Chisels 1 gouge
1 broad ax 1 hansaw 1 Ads 1 Coopers Ads
old sickles 1 drawing knife 1 Joynter 4 hamers
Three pick axes 1 dung fork 3 hoes 1 fro 2 betle Rings
half barrill mollases salt meat flax and Rope
salt and barrill grinding stone and harness
Sheeps Wooll, one shoe makers knife
one warming pan
Document 2
Source: Preacher Janathan Efwards, 1741
There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men, a foundation for the torments of hell. There are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell fire. These principles are active and powerful, exceeding violent in their nature, and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out, they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruptions, the same enmity does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them. The souls of the wicked are in scripture compared to the troubled sea, Isa. 57:20. For the present, God restrains their wickedness by his mighty power, as he does the raging waves of the troubled sea, saying, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;" but if God should withdraw that restraining power, it would soon carry all before it. Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable. The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by God's restraints, whereas if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or a furnace of fire and brimstone.
Document 3
Source: Benjarmin Franklin an meeting Gearee Whitefield a preacher, 1739
The Multitudes of all Sects and Denominations that attended his Sermons were enormous and it was [a] matter of Speculation to me who was one of the Number, to observe the extraordinary Influence of his Oratory on his Hearers, and how much they admir’d and respected him, notwithstanding his common Abuse of them, by assuring them they were naturally half Beasts and half Devils. It was wonderful to see the Change soon made in the Manners [behavior] of our Inhabitants; from being thoughtless or indifferent about Religion, it seem’d as if all the World were growing Religious; so that one could not walk thro’ the Town in an Evening without Hearing Psalms sung in different Families of every Street.
Document 4
Source: Historian Frark Lambert on the First Great Awakering
The Great Awakening was as much a movement of the printed as the spoken word. One of the central premises of the revivalists was that many Protestants, especially Anglicans, had substituted human reason for divine revelation as a sure guide for human conduct. Evangelicals insisted that Christians needed to return to the Bible and works of the "good old Puritans" of the seventeenth century. They themselves published extensively. For two years before his arrival in 1739 triggered the revival's intercolonial phase, Whitefield circulated about a hundred publications throughout the Atlantic world, including the American colonies. Then in 1740 colonial presses alone printed thirty-three Whitefield imprints. The eleven colonial newspapers from Boston to Charleston gave frequent and extensive coverage to the revivals, serving as advance publicity to mass outdoor services. Rather than relying solely on preaching, Whitefield and others employed the press to reach thousands who never heard them preach.
Document 6
Saurce: Histarian Pauline Maier an the Boston Bread Riot af 1710
This role of the mob as extralegal arm of the community's interest emerged, too, in repeated uprisings that occurred within the more densely settled coastal areas. The history of Boston, where by the mid-eighteenth century "public order . . . prevailed to a greater degree than anywhere else in England or America," is full of such incidents. During the food shortage of 1710, after the governor rejected a petition from the Boston selectmen calling for a temporary embargo on the exportation of foodstuffs one heavily laden ship found its rudder cut away, and fifty men sought to haul another outward bound vessel back to shore. Under similar circumstances Boston mobs again intervened to keep foodstuffs in the colony in 1713 and 1729.
Document 7
Source: Historian Antonio Bly on runaway slaves in the early 18^th century
The colonies’ role in the traffic of slaves and within the Atlantic system itself was small during the seventeenth century, but after 1720 it grew significantly, linking Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut to a thriving economic network involving several African nations and the British West Indies……In order to reclaim their escaped property, masters turned to the press and public notices…To judge from the notices that appear in print, many slaveholders thought their servants both artful and crafty, unheralded masters of stealth and guile. Privately, they might have respected their servants’ bids for freedom or even taken a modicum of pride from their bondmen’s efforts.

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