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The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment

The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment. Great Awakening. Renewal of religious feelings in American colonies (1730s – 1740s) Preachers become more dramatic; traveling preachers convert thousands. People question traditional religious authority; individuals switched churches.

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The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment

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  1. The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment

  2. Great Awakening • Renewal of religious feelings in American colonies (1730s – 1740s) • Preachers become more dramatic; traveling preachers convert thousands. • People question traditional religious authority; individuals switched churches. • New Universities founded to train ministers (Princeton, Brown, Columbia).

  3. Enlightenment • Intellectual movement that emphasized reason and the scientific method as a way of obtaining knowledge. • Men like Thomas Jefferson used reason to argue that men had natural rights that governments had to respect.

  4. Questions (pg. 82-83) • What are two things that Benjamin Franklin did that show he was an Enlightenment thinker? • What are two things Jonathan Edwards did that show he was a man of the Great Awakening?

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