The great awakening was about making people individualists when it came to religion. Moving away from institutionalized religion and into the realm of self-reflection and religion being a personal thing. Since the religion was usually tied to the country, making it a personal thing could have implications that governing of a state should be a personal thing, that is that people should not have a monarchy and rather a republic.
During the 1920's The United States went through a thriving economic period (until 1929) and this caused Americans to spend more money in leisure, including sports and different types of entertainment and activities.
Because of all these things, sports became a national pastime and people could follow different sports by:
- Attending games
- Following teams in the newspapers
- Reading about teams in magazine reports
- Listening to games on the radio
Farming scenes are very difficult to set up, especially to make them seem peaceful. I had to help make a farm scene for a play and it was very hard to do with everyone moving stuff around.
command the armed forces.