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https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/enlightenment

http://historyworldsome.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-enlightenment_7312.html

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How The Great Awakening Impacted the Colonies

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How The Great Awakening Impacted the Colonies

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The Great Awakening had a positive and negative impact on the colonies. The Great Awakening brought together some areas in the colonies by bringing them both to God and other areas got divided due to their different beliefs on religion. It impacted the American Revolution because it promoted individual rights of humans.

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The Enlightenment was an age of new ideas and new ways of obtaining knowledge through reason. These new ideas included facts about the earth and parts of politics. This new information started to be written down, therefore, making literacy more important. It also effected the way that authority in politics was viewed, as people started to require individual rights. Overall, the Enlightenment emphasized human reason and the questioning of authority.

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Since the church started to have a decline in church membership, leaders like Jonathan Edwards to try and bring back the original religious views. These leaders preached to others and made large groups of people for them to teach. This Great Awakening brought many colonists into churches including people like Native Americans. It also began to challenge the authority of other churches, while more members started to join. This led to a new interest in higher education as well as making church authority decline

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Enlightenment impacted the colonies by influencing the American Revolution.  Ideas such as freedom of speech and religion also inspired the first amendment in the Constitution.

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There were many new ideas that sprouted from using reason instead of evidence. People determined that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa. They also concluded that the world is governed not by chance or miracles but by fixed mathematical laws. Colonial leaders such as Thomas Jefferson used reason to conclude that individuals have natural rights, which governments must respect.

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In the early 1700s, the Purtian church’s membership was failing. So in the 1730s and 1740s, preachers began traveling to villages to preach, drawing crowds of thousands of people. They taught people about God’s mercy and encouraged them to rededicate their lives to God