Compare And Contrast Enlightenment And The Great Awakening

The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening both played an important part in the making of the American government. The Enlightenment introduced many of the things that we see in the Declaration of Independence and in the United States Constitution. “Englishman John Lock proposed that individuals were endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty and property and the state existed to protect those rights”(Faragher 115). The Age of Enlightenment opened up many different ideas about the world and humans that lived. Also these ideas where spread around very quickly with the use of books and newspapers. The Great Awakening was more about religion, in was bring people back to the churches. “Before the Awakening attendance at church had been mostly
an adult affair, but throughout the colonies the revival of religion had its deepest effects on young people, who flocked to church in greater numbers than ever before”(Faragher 117).