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Religion and Eighteenth-Century Revivalism
With an introduction by Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University
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A History of the Thanksgiving Holiday
Thanksgiving stands as one of the most American of holidays, an autumnal ritual fixed in the imagination as honoring the piety and perseverance of the nation’s earliest arrivals during colonial days....
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Native American Discoveries of Europe
Native Americans discovered Europe at the same time Europeans discovered America. As far as we know, no birch bark canoes caught the gulf stream to...
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Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening began about 1795 in New England. During the Second Great Awakening revival events known as camp meetings were held throughout the nation, and evangelical sentiment contributed to antebellum moral reforms such as the temperance movement.
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Ann Lee in New England
Shaker leader “Mother” Ann Lee and a group of followers arrived in New England from Great Britain in search of freedom from religious persecution.
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New England Restraining Act
King George III approved the New England Restraining Act, which imposed a policy that prohibited New England from trading with any country but Great Britain and the British West Indies.
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Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations)
Later called the Tariff of Abominations, the Tariff of 1828 increased the tax on imported manufactured goods. The law economically benefitted the North—New England in particular favored high tariffs—and injured the South, which believed that the tariff was unconstitutional.