The Great Awakening by Cavazos, Javier https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8 The Religious Revival of Colonial America en-us 2020-10-15 21:41:26 UTC 2025-04-06 18:42:39 UTC hello@padlet.com What was the Great Awakening? 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834123371 The Great Awakening was a religious revival that occured in the American colonies from the late 1720s to the 1740's. It sparked the development of various Protestant religions in the colonies. Several groups that grew in this period were the Baptists,  Methodists, and Prebyarians. This movement drove many to question their belief in higher power and shift their focus towards God. ]]> 2020-10-15 22:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834123371 Causes and Effects 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834125525 Cause | Effect
  • New religious denominations are established, which leads to a sense of religious diversity arising in the colonies
  • Preachers such as Whitefield cause people to question the heirarchy of England, establishing the concept of individualism among the colonists.
  • Created an accepting society, which ultimately led to the unification of the colonists under religion.
  • The movement taught people how to be bold when confronting religious authority, which would prove useful in the coming years, when the colonists rose against Great Britain

]]> 2020-10-15 22:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834125525 What Changed? 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834125995
  • Large growth of Protestant religions.
  • The American colonies became more diverse
  • Greater religious toleration in the colonies
  • American colonists began to feel separated from Britain because they now associated with their own religious groups and communities.
  • Decline in Quakers, Angelicans, and Congregationalists


    • ]]>     2020-10-15 22:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834125995     George Whitefield 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834165289 Whitefield was a British minister and icon who led many revival meetings in the colonies. He directed his sermons towards the idea of personal salvation through God.]]> 2020-10-15 22:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834165289 Jonathan Edwards 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834166493 Edwards was one of the fathers of the Great Awakening, and is said to be America's most important philosophical theologian. He preached on the ideas of the power God has in people's lives, and the beauty behind it all.]]> 2020-10-15 22:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834166493 Key Events and Ideas 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834213612
  • 1730's: The first Great Awakening causes a revival in spiritual and religious devotion
  • Ideas:
    • Encouraged the people to question everything
    • Preachers stressed the importance of a personal relationship with God
    • ]]>     2020-10-15 23:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834213612     Eric Foner on Religious Freedom in the 18th Century 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834377543 2020-10-16 00:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834377543 Account of a Great Awakening sermon 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834385682
    “I came to a church crowded with people; the church-yard was full likewise, and a number of people were even mounted on ladders, looking in at the windows. . . When I got into the church I saw this pious man exhorting the people with the greatest fervour and earnestness, and sweating as much as I ever did while in slavery on Montserrat beach. I was very much struck and impressed with this . . . “


    -Olaudah Equiano (former slave), on observing a Whitefield sermon in Philadelphia, 1766



    ]]>     2020-10-16 01:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834385682     Map of the religious diversity in the Colonies 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834425735 2020-10-16 01:20:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834425735 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834495523 2020-10-16 01:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834495523 Poster for a sermon by Jonathan Edwards- 1741 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834510538 2020-10-16 02:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834510538 Gilbert Tennet 2155422 https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834573117 Tennet was a Presbyterian clergyman, licensed to preach, and a public figure in the religious revival. He was one of the main leaders of the movement, along with Whitefield and Edwards]]> 2020-10-16 02:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2155422/yehngzmzu2fl3ro8/wish/834573117