Great Awakening

What are two ideas of the Great Awakening?

Focus on having a relationship with God and god doesn't hate you, he's just angry with you.

What is the Great Awakening?

Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730's and 1740's.

What was a main theme by the religious Great Awakening preachers?

All people are sinners and all people could be saved.

The Great Awakening ideas are different from the puritans because?

Because Puritans believed that you can only get into heaven by doing good, and God created the world but didn't communicate with people.

What caused the Great Awakening?

Decline in religious activity.

What three things did the Great Awakening do for the colonies?

Increased religious and political freedom, and increased unity throughout the colonies.

Jonathan Edwards

Often credited with starting the Great Awakening in 1741 with his sermon "Sinners in the hands of an angry god"

How did the Great Awakening affect the colonies?

The Great Awakening increased the degree to which people felt that religion was important in their lives. The Great Awakening also affected the colonies by creating rifts among members of religious denominations.

What was the significance of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

The Great Awakening was a reaction against some ideas in the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was a period of time where old ideas were being challenged, and new ideas were being considered.

Where did the religious revivals begin in the Great Awakening?

The religious revivals began in the middle colonies.