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Compare/contrast 1 st & 2 nd Great Awakenings

Compare/contrast 1 st & 2 nd Great Awakenings. 1 st - 1730-1750 NE primarily Spontaneous groups George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Significance: 1 st mass movement in colonies – helped prepare them for independence movement. 2 nd - 1800-1840

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Compare/contrast 1 st & 2 nd Great Awakenings

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  1. Compare/contrast 1st & 2nd Great Awakenings • 1st - 1730-1750 • NE primarily • Spontaneous groups • George Whitefield • Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God • Significance: 1st mass movement in colonies – helped prepare them for independence movement • 2nd - 1800-1840 • South/West • Planned, organized “revival” meetings • Burned over district • New western style • Charles Finney • Significance: fostered the antebellum reform movements, new denominations, feminization of religion • Both started due to declining church membership • Both included “mass” preaching

  2. The Pilgrims • To purify Ang. Church • Great Migration, 1620-1650 • 1629, Salem; 1630, Boston • Royal charter, MA Bay Co. • Come in family units • Create elected legislature – General Court –membership limited to male church members -“visible saints” • Social experiment to create a utopia. • John Winthrop, Governor • Congregational Church • Puritan work ethic • Rebels – Williams, Hutchinson • Separatists, family units • “Visible saints” get church membership • 1608 migrated to Holland but… • Form joint-stock company • Migrate to America in 1620-Mayflower…to VA but land in Plymouth • Mayflower Compact – majority rule! • Governor William Bradford • 1st Thanksgiving, 1621 • Merge with Puritans MA Bay in 1691, becomes MA

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