How Did Jonathan Edwards Affect Society

1730-1745 In the 1730’s the Great Awakening exploded, religion rose to power once again and people began to get disconnected from their scientific ways of thinking. Jonathan Edwards was the catalyst to the Great Awakening, Edwards preached that not only doing good deeds will lead one to salvation, but faith in God will too, and he reiterated that faith in God was always above just doing good deeds. There wasn’t just a religious revolution at this time, but a social revolution was stirring, with the Molasses Act brought into effect in 1732, the colonists would soon begin getting sick of the taxes imposed by British Parliament. Also around this Time Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richards Almanac a series of Almanacs that sold 10,000 copies every year and brought great success to Benjamin Franklin. During this period there are also several slave revolts and in 1940, fifty slaves are hanged due to suspicion of revolt.
1745-1760
During this time, the British Parliament begins to pass laws that limit the colonies greatly, they begin to cause the stirrings of a war. In 1750 they pass the Iron Act, this
The Missouri Compromise involves the addition of Missouri as a Slave State and Maine as a Free State and it doesn’t allow the formation of slave states in the Louisiana Purchase above the 36°30' line. In 1824 Andrew Jackson loses a very controversial election to John Q. Adams and it is believed there was a Corrupt Bargain where neither Jackson nor Adams had fifty percent of the total vote so before congress could vote for President Henry Clay told all of his supporters to vote for Adams and in turn Adams made Clay the Secretary of State. One year after the election the Erie Canal is completed which is considered a major transportation achievement. In 1828 Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United