Other activists began to create democratic reforms as well‚ fighting to reinforce the ideals the nation so actively prides itself in. Many however‚ did not take part in these reforms‚ insisting that the old ways were the best ways. The Second Great Awakening was the push that brought on these reform movements. Beginning in New England‚ in the late 1790s‚ and later spreading
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The Great Awakening traces back to seventeenth century England‚ where political climate led to a decrease in spirituality. The Puritans had grown in number ever since Charles the Second assumed the throne‚ who had also agreed to join the French to oppose Holland and bring Catholicism back to England. While James the Second was the next king‚ much of the Anglican clergy were accommodating to the new monarchs‚ but they started to gravitate away from the extremes. This gave England a period of superiority
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Evangelical America After 1720‚ two great European cultural movements‚ the Enlightenment‚ which emphasized the power of human reason to understand and shape the world; and pietism‚ and evangelical christian movement that stressed the individual’s personal relationship with God reached America. Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening fostered religious freedom. The Enlightenment underlined individual’s natural rights to choose one’s faith. The Awakening contributed by setting dissenting church
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Impacts of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment on Provincial America Although the ideas and concepts of life during the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment periods proved to be drastically different‚ both proved to be influential and shaped America. The Great Awakening was a revival of religion and the Enlightenment was all about understanding science and social structure. The Great Awakening occurred from the 1730’s to the 1740’s. Mainly‚ the cause of the Great Awakening was a decline
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The Great Awakening (1730s)- In the 1730s‚ ministers were stressed that many people in America were turning away from religion towards science and reasoning‚ thus causing a religious revival in the colonies. Ministers began travelling around the colonies holding large and emotional sermons attracting many people. During these sermons‚ ministers expressed that people could determine their own religion and churches were not essential to understand god‚ reducing the power of churches. The Great Awakening
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Events Leading Up to the American Revolutionary War Great Awakening (1730s-1740s) The Great Awakening was a sort of religious revival that swept through the English colonies and was a reaction against the Enlightenment which had started due to the mass of wealth and greed of the church and upper class‚ leading to up to the American Revolution by inspiring an idea of democracy and independence in the colonists. It connected the colonies by a religious bond and made many colonists feel they were equal
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The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment Sabrina Stroud History 201 Professor Lewis March 5‚ 2013 The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment were both extremely influential times in American history‚ but they affected people in different ways. The Great Awakening focused more on spiritual changes that revolved around faith‚ whereas the Enlightenment emphasized on intellectual change and human reason. In my opinion‚ the
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Religion/Cultural Influences The Second Great Awakening‚ also known as the Great Revival‚ changed not only the upper class‚ well-educated people’s perspective of religious teachings‚ but also the lower and less wealthy class. This Great Awakening was not specific to any area of America‚ but it was mainly active in the Northeast and Midwest. This awakening brought to attention the rights of people‚ including women and slaves‚ and abstinence from alcohol. This lead to people making decisions in their
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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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David Park 2/26/13 In history events have occurred which changed the way a nation was operated. A great example of a situation like this would be the U.S. between 1820 and 1840 where many events had great effect on the way the nation was steered back in those days. The nation was still very young at the time and had yet to establish a great‚ equal‚ and fair operation of the nation but certain events led to greater democracy and fairness in the nation. The events would include
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