Jan. 27--The Great Awakening and the Birth of Evangelical America

1. The Weakness of the Puritan Vision
   1. Corrosion by Individualism and Materialism
   2. Confinement to New England
2. The Great Awakening
   1. The Problem of the Frontier--Freedom vs. Order
      1. Anxiety at Disorder
      2. Institutional Weakness
   2. The Response--Salvation Through Personal Experience
      1. The Minister as Revivalist
      2. "Do-It-Yourself" Religion
         1. Self-Government of the Laity
         2. Individual Self-Government--"Moral Gyroscopes"
      3. Populism
      4. Breaching Cultural Boundaries--The Slaves
   3. Broader Consequences
      1. Colonial Unification
      2. Messianism--The "Redeemer Nation"
      3. Millenialism--A Belief in "Progress"