What patterns of response to social change emerge from the First, Second, and Third Great Awakenings?

McLaughlin argues that throughout the cultural history of the United States there has remained a central “cultural core” that has been renegotiated through a process known as “Awakening” that produce major socio-economic and socio-political changes.

In your essay (2-4 double-spaced pages):

• The thesis should answer this pair of questions: “What patterns of response to social change emerge from the First, Second, and Third Great Awakenings? How do the solutions / restructurings produced by the Great Awakenings show these patterns?
• The essay as a whole needs to:
  • Define the cultural core of the United States of America.
  • For each of the three Awakenings, explain how that cultural core was challenged.
  • Trace how each Awakening has made (or tried to make) societal changes (religious, ideological, social, economic, and/or political) in order to maintain this cultural core.
  • As you do the three steps above, emphasize any shared or common patterns for coping with the religo-cultural challenges of social change. This may emerge in your conclusion section, which may need to be more than one paragraph.
• In your conclusion comment on the condition of this cultural core today.

TIP 1: Review your mind-maps & Packbacks as your create your writing plan/outline.

TIP 2: Cite specific details from your readings, course videos, and lectures.

TIP 3: Consider using a talk-to-text app to brainstorm or write your first draft. Be sure to revise and edit that first draft.

TIP 4: To list a lecture in the Works Cited (Chicago Style)

Last Name, First Name. “Presentation title.” Presentation Type, Event from Sponsor, City, Date Conducted.