PPT-Lesson 5.1: The Great Awakening

and the Enlightenment What role did the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment play in moving the colonists toward revolution Essential Question divine right denomination specific religious group . Today we will explain how the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment caused revolutionary feelings to grow in the colonies.. Vocabulary . explain – give reasons for. denomination – specific religious group . Great Awakening. Religious Revival . (1730s-1740s). EMOTIONAL. “Fire and Brimstone” Preaching. Calvinist-influenced. Human sinfulness . inherent. Social Divisions. Edwards. Questions to consider. Enlightenment . In . the early 1700s revolutions in both religious and nonreligious thought . transformed . the Western world. These . movements . began in Europe and affected life in the American colonies. . The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. Late 1600s-1700s: An intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment began in Europe. Later a religious movement known as the Great Awakening started in the Colonies . First part of . 1700’s. The Great Awakening was a spiritual renewal that swept the American Colonies, particularly New England, during the first half of the 18th Century.  It began in England before catching fire across the Atlantic.  . Key Religions. Deism. :. Relied on reason rather than revelation, science rather than the Bible. Believed in God. Unitarians. God only existed in 1 person; Jesus is not divine. Free will, possibility of salvation through good works. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Rev. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). The Great Awakening. What historians call "the first Great Awakening" can best be described as a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.. 1730s-1740s. What was the Great Awakening?. Religious revival movement. Evangelicism – “new birth” considered the ultimate religious experience. Followers accepted that they were sinners and asked for salvation. Describing the impact of the Great Awakening on colonial society. Chapter 3 Section 4. Great Awakening. Revival of religious feelings. 1730-1740s. Started in Massachusetts. Great Awakening. The colonists were less dedicated to religion as they were when the colonies were founded.. VS. Two broad sets of ideas largely determined . the worldview . in 18th century America prior to the American Revolution.  While it is true that the Enlightenment more thoroughly influenced the Colonial elite, and the Great Awakening was most influential amongst common people, both found their nexus in America. What was the Great Awakening?. Religious revival movement. Evangelicism – “new birth” considered the ultimate religious experience. Followers accepted that they were sinners and asked for salvation. 1700’s. The Great Awakening was a spiritual renewal that swept the American Colonies, particularly New England, during the first half of the 18th Century.  It began in England before catching fire across the Atlantic.  . A religious revival movement that spread throughout the colonies from the 1720s-1740s. The Great Awakening. Origins . Enlightenment . rationalism. Enlightenment corrupted the Anglican Church. But Enlightenment did affect emphasis on the individual. AP US History. Second Great Awakening. CC #15 3:18 to 6:13. Event. Rebirth of religion in the early 1800s. Causes. Society wasn’t as religious in the Revolutionary Era so Americans returned to their religious roots.