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    In Antebellum America‚ a Second Great Awakening swept the nation through fervorous Protestant religious revivals. As a matter of fact‚ 75% of Americans attended church regularly during this time. The Second Great Awakening was an important period in history because many religions‚ denominations‚ and utopian societies were founded‚ it shaped the way churches are now‚ and it influenced many more important movements in American history. The Second Great Awakening was a time in which Protestant revivals

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    World War I was a series of unfortunate events for everyone involved. It’s made out to be this great war that we must learn about‚ but once we do‚ we soon find out that it was just a string of very small events that led to such a big and preventable war. The three biggest causes of WWI are the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ the Balkans‚ and Militarism. The leading cause of the beginning of WWI was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. It happened in June 1914 by a group that went

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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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    In the 1920s‚ most of the citizens in the United States were having the best time of their lives. It was even dubbed the Roaring Twenties because of its successfulness. Many would not hesitate to spend their money on buying the latest item or stock credits. In the midst of this‚ Republicans were also elected to become the President for the next few terms since they were praised for bringing the economy up. Consequently‚ Herbert Hoover became the President after Calvin Coolidge. Everything was going

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    Causes and Consequences The Deepwater Horizon oil spill also referred to as the BP oil spill or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been named largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill occurred on 20 April‚ 2010 which lasted for 87 days and end on 15 July‚ 2010. The oil spill was caused by an explosion which resulted from high-pressure methane gas from the well that expanded into the drilling riser and was released onto the drilling rig‚ where it ignited

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    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. The churches started

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    Essay Question: What were the causes of the Great Awakening and to what extent did this intense religious revival affect those who experienced ¡°conversion¡± as well as those who did not? During Europe¡¯s period of Enlightment from 1687-1789‚ new scientific theories and ideas were proposed‚ changing the nature of how the world was looked at and questioned the very fundamentals of religion. The Great Awakening of the 1730s-1740s acted as a direct response to the Enlightment in order to revive the

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    Question No. 13 Answer: The Great Awakening was a mass movement in the historical backdrop of the western world that occurred around the middle of the eighteenth century. This movement fixated on religion and individual confidence of individuals belonging to every socioeconomic class. There are numerous who feel that it was a reaction to the reasoning that created as an aftereffect of Enlightenment and an endeavor to turn individuals’ attention back to church and god. Essential religious leaders

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    Out With the Old‚ In With the New There were multiple factors that influenced the Great Awakening in the early seventeen hundreds. From 1730 to 1740‚ rebellion spread throughout the colonies causing a major religious warfare between churches. In Contending Voice‚ Hollitz shows us the perspective of two famous preachers that gave the Great Awakening a stir of madness. The “wild‚” “indecent‚” and work of “mad men” revolutionized the way colonist viewed how religion could be so intense frequently

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    The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening The Enlightenment‚ also known as the Age of Reason introduced a new spirit of thought and inventive analysis in 17th and 18th century Europe. Theories and ideas that had previously been accepted were now being challenged to be looked upon with an eye of reason rather than tradition. Key leaders in this movement of new thinking included Copernicus‚ Galileo‚ Locke‚ Franklin and Newton. Englishman‚ John Locke‚ was one of whose political works had the greatest

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