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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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    Amour Mrs. McKenny English 10 Honors May 15‚ 2000 Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emerson So what is Transcendentalism anyway and how have men ’s thoughts and outlooks been able make it what it is remembered as? I. Ralph Waldo Emerson A. Emerson ’s Life 1. Childhood 2. Adulthood B. Emerson ’s thoughts and views 1. Thoughts on resolutions 2. Views of people 3. Feelings about the universe and soul II. Transcendentalism A. History 1. When it occurred a. what

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    groups‚ including Lutherans‚ Catholics‚ Jews‚ Congregationalists‚ and Quakers in Pennsylvania. During the Great Awakening of the 1730s‚ the influence of older forms of Protestantism‚ especially Calvinism‚ increased dramatically throughout both regions. Until 1740‚ religion mainly united the New England region‚ while it mostly divided the mid-Atlantic region until the first Great Awakening. New England was founded by a group of Puritan Congregationalists who were originally from England‚ but who

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    The Great Awakening By the early 1700’s religion had begun to slack in the colonies. Partly because many of the colonists were starting to worry more about personal riches than their own religious observances. It began after the religious developments in Europe as new ministers started arriving and spreading their word. One of the principal figures in the Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards. Edwards is known for his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon. In it

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    Enlightenment and The Great Awakening are two movements in colonial history that had a greater impact on the lives of the new world people. The Enlightenment period took place in the 18th century and it shaped the mind of colonists‚ and The Great Awakening took place in mid 18th century and can be describe as progress of colonist’s hearts. Enlightenment is a period during the eighteenth century; it was an intellectual movement that was influenced by the European enlightenment. The Enlightenment

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    The First Great Awakening in America - George Whitefield As Whitefield arrived in America‚ a number of regional revivals were under way. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania William Tennant and his four sons preached the new birth to Presbyterians. Tennant was fed up with the resistance of Yale and Harvard Administrators to the new evangelical fervor‚ and he founded his own school to train preachers. Derisively his school was called‚ "log college‚" but it would lead to the formation of Princeton University

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    Analysis of the Great Awakening and Revolutionary Thought In the 1730s and the 1740s‚ religious revival swept through the New England and Middle Colonies. Through these revivals‚ the colonists came to view religion as a discrete and personal experience between God and man which‚ “undermined legally established churches and their tax supported ministers.” (Henretta‚ P. 112) Joseph Tracey was the first person to describe this period of revivalism as‚ ‘the Great Awakening.’ In 1841‚ Joseph Tracy

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    The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin and The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald were both published in the Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries. During this time society dealt with the ideologies of equal rights for women‚ marriage‚ religion‚ morality‚ individualism‚ and the dire consequences individuals face when conflicting societal norms. Such penalties consist of death and loss of faith. In The Awakening‚ Edna Pontellier is constantly conflicting with society over a woman’s role‚ which ultimately

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    During the 1730s‚ an extremely popular religious idea‚ Great Awakening‚ was spread across Europe and the British colonies in New England. The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals which prompted a closer relationship with god. The revivals also represented a commitment showing a deeper devotion to their religion or “religion of the heart” (Walker 75). A new belief was adopted‚ one must ask for god’s grace to clear one’s sins in order for him/her to go to heaven. Minister would travel

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    I am writing to tell the readers of The New York Times about what has happened in Boston because of the Great Awakening. Before the Great Awakening‚ the churches in my community were not preaching the truth of Christ. This led to many other issues‚ like the people having a harsh and uncaring form of Christianity. They also were missing the spiritual enthusiasm that they needed. Colleges for ministers also failed to do their part and helped strengthen the spiritual issues that we were struggling with

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