The Enlightenment is a difficult phenomenon to teach or explain because it seems wispy‚ airy‚ it doesn’t have clear boundaries‚ and it is hard to catch. Essentially‚ the Englightenment was an intellectual movement where everyone started to think about everything differently than they did before. It was quite revolutionary‚ as manifested in the American Revolution. The Enlightenment‚ taking place within the eighteenth century‚ brought with it the “modern” world. In order to understand the Enlightenment
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turned into rum. Great Awakening: A religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s. First started in Massachusetts by pastor Jonathan Edwards. He proclaimed that believing in salvation through good works and affirming the need for complete and utter dependence on God’s grace. His most famous sermon was called‚ “Sinners in the Hands of and Angry God”. Regulator Movement: A small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony’s affairs. It occurred in North Carolina
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Before the Great Awakening‚ religious authority was very bias which lead to many uproars. Religion was very strict back then and it shaped the way people lived their lives. It had total control over everything‚ including government. Acceptance into heaven wasn’t even a privilege because many believed that God decided who was going into heaven no matter what. However‚ by the 1700s‚ colonists believed that communities were beginning to take their religion a little less seriously. In order to bring
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the context of this nation’s Second Great Awakening: a religious revival that carried the country into reform movements. The Second Great Awakening had its start in Connecticut in the 1790s and grew to its height in the 1830s to 1840s.[1] During this time in the United States history‚ churches experienced a more complete freedom from governmental control which opened the doors of opportunity to a great spiritual awakening in the American people.[2] This awakening focused on areas of both religious
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The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement in the mid 1800 (19th century); the movement revealed romanticism which mainly included enthusiasm‚ appeal to the super-natural (extraterrestrial)‚ and emotion; it rejected the skeptical of enlightenment. The theory of the movement began around the 1790s but it gained its popularity around the 1800s‚ by the 1850s the movement was at its peak (climax). The awakening arose mainly in the Baptist and Methodist congregations due to the preachers
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The 18th century is known as Age of Reason or also referred to as the Age of Enlightenment (sageamericanhistory.net). The people of this time period went through a "scientific revelation" that changed the way they processed information bringing about new ideas. The American Enlightenment stemmed from European Enlightenment ideas‚ essentially shaping them through their own experiences. Some outside influences of the time were John Locke‚ Adam Smith‚ and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Schulz). But America
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Practice: Document Based Questions The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment both produced writers and thinkers who argued for the implementation of a republican government. Writers such as Locke‚ Montesquieu‚ Edwards and Whitefield‚ all had a role in promoting republican values‚ which in turn influenced the establishment of a republican government. John Locke‚ an English philosopher was a major part of the growth of the rebublican view during the Enlightenment era.1 Locke was a brilliant teacher
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Identify the major reform movements of the Second Great Awakening. To what extent were reformers during the Second Great awakening successful in achieving their goals? The reformers of the Great Awakening were very effective in achieving their goals due to their future advancements‚ and the major reform movements included reforms in abolition‚ Women’s rights‚ and Temperance. The abolition movement spread the idea that that slavery was wrong. It would eventually lead to the outlaw of slavery during
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The influence of the Second Great Awakening played a huge role in social reforms in the United States. Between 1825 through 1850‚ society in the United States was changing due to transitions and the desire for control and order. People found themselves living in social instability and in a society were values were being challenged. Because of the Second Great Awakening‚ it encouraged an excitement of evangelicalism that led to a movement towards reforms. These movements brought up various issues
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Second Great Awakening In the late 1820s and 1830s a religious revival called the Second Great Awakening had a strong impact on the American religion and reform. It grew partly out of evangelical opposition to the deism associated with the French Revolution and gathered strength in 1826‚ when Charles Grandsoin Finney preacher conducted a revival. Many people saw religion as a social gathering since people didn’t get out much in the 1800s it made going to church and being holy a more enjoyable
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