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1st Great Awakening 1GA (People of interest (John and Charles Wesley…
1st Great Awakening 
New Denominations
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Presbyterian, Baptists, Quaker
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Toleration Act of 1689
The T.A. gave religious objectors safety from persecution and penalties that had been used against them.
The Divinity Colleges
Named after a British philanthropist, Elihu Yale, Yale University began with teaching of orthodox Puritanism
Meant to be a place of higher learning for both natives and colonists, the college of William and Mary was funded by the Crown
New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersy, later named Princeton, so they could train ministers who were dedicated to their religious views.
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With so many Puritans moving in from England, Harvard was founded due to the need of training clergy.
People of interest
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Jonathan Edwards was a British Puritan who is known as one of America's original theologians and he organized many revivals.
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George Whitefield was a Calvinist, he used his emotional and dramatic preaching's to try and sway crowds. He was not for banning slavery but that didn’t stop him from preaching to slaves and he is likely one of the main founders of African-American Christianity.
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William Tennent was a Presbyterian minister from Ireland who founded the “Log College” (PA) for ministerial education.
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Introduction of Latitudinarianism which allowed people to be free of the strict constraints of their church. It also urged people to not take everything so literally.