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    What is the Great Awakening and what happened? What is the Enlightenment and what happened? In the 1730’s and 1740’s‚ a religious movement called the Great Awakening swept through the colonies. Unlike the Great Awakening‚ which stressed religious emotion‚ the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. In the 1700’s‚ many colonists feared they had lost the religious passion that had driven their ancestors to found the colonies. The Great Awakening revolved around religion

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    The Great Awakening was a period of time where radically new questions against former religious practices were contrived. While it never necessarily brought attention toward the state of politics in the colonies‚ I believe that it stirred thought among the people in an eerily similar way that occurs during the American Revolution. Thusly‚ the following will entail how the stagnation and subsequent rallies against religion parallel those of politics of the Revolution. If one thinks of the growth

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    I. There were two Great Awakenings in the U.S. The principal‚ which happened when the U.S. was as yet a settlement of Great Britain‚ occurred in the 1730s-1740s in New England. This development was a Puritan response to their observation that there was a decrease in confidence in the group‚ and it included their endeavor to recommit the group to the possibility of destiny (that individuals’ confidence was in God’s grasp and that they must be spared through their faith in God). There were a few new

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    2014 Hollitz Chapter7 What is the connection between the ‘’democratic spirit’’ of the American culture in the nineteenth century and the appeal of insurgent religious groups of the Second great awakening‚ according to Nathan Hatch’s essay? What role did the American Revolution play in growing appeal to these groups during the awakening‚ according to the essay? Nathan Hatch compares the Second Great Awakening to the Jacksonian era. He states that the men trying to persuade other people to join their

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    2nd Great Awakening: 1820-1859 People: Rev. Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)‚ whose career took off after his dynamic evangelical revivals in the late 1820s in New York’s upstate "Burned-Over District." Finney’s brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold. Barton W. Stone - an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister‚ then was expelled from the church after

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    During the 17th and 18th century‚ there were a series of events and religious revivals that took place in the North American British Colonies. This was a time when everyone left religion and turned to science because they lost trust for the church due to the reformation. George Whitefield was a man that shouted during his sermons. He converted slaves and Native Americans to Christianity. Jonathan Edwards was from England. He believed people were becoming concerned with wildly things. He called for

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    The Second Great Awakening was a time period in the early 19th century where people became extremely religious. It reflected cultural romanticism described by enthusiasm‚ emotion‚ and an appeal to religion. Religion had a major role through out this time period. There were huge religious gatherings and revivals that attracted millions of people and it caused many different social changes. The Second Great Awakening created many different movements that involved religion‚ abolitionists‚ and women’s

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    The Second Great Awakening was the second revolution religious movement of revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began in 1790 and grew rapidly‚ increasing the involvement of people in different religions‚ mainly the Baptist and Methodist churches‚ and creating new denominations‚ such as the Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists. Many religious leaders of the congregations preached about their religions to people all over the country‚ converting them to their religion

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    12/16/13 The Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening was a religious and social reform movement from 1820-1860. Inspired by religious optimism‚ economic progress and democratic spirit people thought they could better their personal lives and society as a whole. Many religious‚ women’s rights and antislavery movements occurred as a result of the Second Great Awakening. Religious reform during the Great Awakening was very important and sparked a lot of other movements. The new reformers

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    Time and time again‚ people have turned to religion for answers during times of great change‚ such as the burgeoning industrialization of antebellum America in the 1800’s. The Second Great Awakening swept through America as a reaction against the spread of rationalism and the weakening clutch of churches over their followers. With its touch‚ America grew invigorated over religious beliefs such as equality and temperance. Reform movements sprung and spread like wildfire‚ affecting nearly every apspect

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