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What do you think it means to be socially mobile? Who was Benjamin Franklin? Why do you recognize his name?

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c. Identify Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism. d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening.

Causes of the Great Awakening

The Glorious Revolution in England led to the Church of England as the only approved church in England, leading to the suppression of Catholicism, Judaism, and Puritanism. A Spiritual Revival will start in the colonies as a reaction to this suppression.

Great Awakening
This movement occurred between 1730 and 1760, and focused on people returning to their strong beliefs in God. The Great Awakening was mostly in the New England Colonies. George Whitefield brought the movement from England to Boston. Whitefield found that ministers did not have the knowledge of the Church Preachers like Jonathan Edwards preached fire and brimstone sermons that got parishioners more vocal in church than their Puritan neighbors

 Many different protestant denominations were started The Founding Fathers of America did not subscribe to one denomination therefore they kept church and state separate. It brought about the idea of revolution.

Effects of the Great Awakening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt 57rFcpnr4

 The ability to move from one social class to another easily through marriage or changing jobs. A person can move up or down the ladder. For instance, if you marry a millionaire you have moved up the social ladder. If you marry someone of lower social class than you then either you will move up, or they will move down. If you get laid off or get fired you will likely move down the social ladder. If you gain a college degree you are likely to move up the social ladder.

Social Mobility

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Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that stresses "the moral worth of the individual". Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires ,and so they value independence and self-reliance while opposing most external interference upon one's own interests, whether by society, family or any other group or institution.

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is a great example of social mobility Came from a family of 17 children, family was quite poor.

Franklin came to be a printer, writer, politician, political cartoonist, scientist, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

He brought the first subscription library to America He brought about fire insurance for homeowners.

http://www.5min.com/Video/Benjamin-FranklinBiography-120001981

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Quick Write- Do you think social mobility is possible? WHY or WHY NOT?

Benjamin Franklin video

watch this first to make sure you can show this in your classroom 18 min. You will for sure need to preface this information You must click this video to watch
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4227503/found ers-fridays-ben-franklin