Before Next Meeting (Monday)• Preparations for Midterm Exam next Monday—

– On-line guide to preparing for essay examswww.wou.edu/~geierm/

– Today’s Roundtable (Zabin text)– Syllabus themes from week 1-5– At least one question dealing with Salisbury text and at

least one question dealing with Zabin text

• By next Wednesday:– Read Henretta, pp. 131-161 – Critical Thinking Module: “To Form a More

Perfect Union”—choose at least one document– Be prepared to discuss “voices” (see syllabus

listing)

Outline for Monday 24 October 2007: Trading Souls: Communitarian Ideals and Individual Experiences

1. Roundtable #2: Serena R. Zabin, The New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741: Daniel Horsmanden’s “Journal of the Proceedings” with Related Documents (Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004).

2. Discussion: How did religious and political leaders respond to challenges to their authority in the 1700s?

a. Real and Rumored Slave Rebellions, 1712-1740sc. The Great Awakening and the challenge to established authorityd. Social Paranoia and Traditions of Violence in Colonial America

Week #5 Readings: Henretta, pp. 99-130; Zabin, pp. 75-176

Discussion Themes:

1. How did slave conspiracy trials of 1741 affect North American ideas about personal security, individual liberties, and violence on the eve of the French-and-Indian War?

2. Why did religious upheaval coincide with fears of inter-racial violence and slave resistance?

3. How did these tensions relate to the outbreak and conduct of war in North America in the decade after 1753?

The Century of Imperial Wars• King William’s War (1689-1697; War of the League

of Augsburg—Britain vs France, Spain, Austria)• Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713; War of the Spanish

Succession—Britain vs France and Spain)• War of Jenkins’s Ear (1739-1741; English seek

markets in Spanish America—Walpole’s policy of trade expansion)

• King George’s War (1740-1748; Capture & return of Louisbourg)

• French and Indian War (Seven Years War, 1753-1763)

• American Revolution (1775-1783)

Theaters of War, 1713-1763

1. Frontier Forts

2. Privateering

3. Urban seaports

4. Kidnapping and raiding parties

5. Runaways and rebellions

6. Casualty rates and War widows

7. Land bounty warrants

Boston Harbor, from scene in White House Diplomatic Room wallpaper, ca 1800s

Murray Yorke, South of Battery Park

How did Real and Rumored Slave Rebellions affect colonial society , 1712-1740s?

• The Great Awakening and the challenge to established authority:

– why did the Awakeners find a receptive audience in 1740s America? From whom?

– How did the Awakeners message affect political climate? (New paradigm of community)

• How did established religious authorities respond to Awakeners? Political authorities?

How did Real and Rumored Slave Rebellions affect colonial society , 1712-1740s?

• Social Paranoia and Traditions of Violence in Colonial America

– What is the relation between the Great Awakening and culture of wars?

– What is the relation between the Great Awakening and Slave Rebellion scares?

• Why is upstate NY known as the “burned over” district?

Landscapes of the Great Awakening