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The Great Awakening (Jonathan Edwards (Distrusted hierarchy and catechisms…
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Yale Minister
Distrusted hierarchy and catechisms
Refused to convert to the Church of England
Revival began with Edwards
Believed that colonists were becoming too concerned with worldly matters
He thought that people were too concerned with money
Samuel Davies
Presbyterian minister
Preached to Christian slaves
Believed that blacks could attain equal knowledge to whites if given equal education
Promoted the importance of having slaves become literate so they would be able to read the Bible
4th president of Princeton Universtiy
Created new denominations of Christianity
split people into the "new lights" and "old lights"
Weakened royal authority
protestant religious revival
left a permanent impact on American Protestantism
George Whitfield
Minister from Great Britain
He conducted a religious tour and traveled around delivering his sermons to huge crowds of colonists
converted Benjamin Franklin, slaves and even some native Americans
Long term cause of the Revolution
Gave them new ideas
1730s and 1740s
First national occurrence (the first thing that all the colonists experienced)