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.

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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)