PPT-The First Great Awakening

Learning Objectives Explain the characteristics of religious belief associated with the First Great Awakening Identify and discuss the ideas of Jonathan Edwards one of the leading preachers associated with the First Great . Over time…. Several generations had passed…. Over time many of the colonists had slid away from their traditional Christian roots.. Revival. 1730s – 1740s several prominent preachers come onto the scene… George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards.. By Kate Chopin. Project By: Zach Almon. Ashley . Doughtery. Landon Baker. Kristen Kursave. Our Excerpt From the Book:. Chapter . 19, page . 68. Excerpt:. It moved her with recollections. She could hear again the . 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. . Lesson 3: The Second Great Awakening. Review. What was the Great Awakening?. Explain the causes of the Great Awakening?. Summarize in your own words the effects of the Great Awakening. .. Essential Question. 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. and Utopian Societies. The Second Great Awakening. Around 1800 – 1830’s. Revival of the Great Awakening of the early 18. th. century. Emphasis on personal piety over schooling and theology. A religious movement during the 19. Historical . and . Background Information. . Life. Birth: Born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850/1851 in St. Louis, MO. Father: Thomas (emigrated from Ireland; died in a railroad . 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. The Story. Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, struggles against her sense of duty and personal identity. . Her journey is not a quest for superiority, but rather equality. . The reader quickly comes to see how she feels trapped in her roles of wife and mother—a situation Chopin seems to want us to recognize as rather ordinary in this time period. .