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The Great Awakening was when religion was sweeping throughout New

England with more conversions and church membership. This spiritual

awakening took place from 1735 up until 1745. (Brief Outline Notes on the

Great Awakening, 1735-45 ) Most of this had taken place within the American

Colonies, especially New England.(McCormick, pars. 9) . The Great Awakening

had many causes, however the consequences benefitted many.

Many people were moving farther and farther away from religion, the

Great Awakening was a revitalization that had tried to change that. There was a

huge decline in church membership and the church wanted people to get back to

god. As well as the Enlightenment, this was a time period where many people

were using reason to receive their answers. Instead of relying on the church for

answers they used science and math (Brief Outline Notes on the Great

Awakening, 1735-45 ).In 1688, the Church of English became the primary

religion of the country. Many other religions were infact repressed. Basically,

people were becoming bored of the religion and it just became a past time for

them. They didn`t worship god from their heart. This led to the decline of

attendance in church, memberships were decreasing as the years passed by

(Great Awakening).

To create change in such phenomenons, many minsters such as Thomas

Foxcroft gave sermons outside. People were actually eager to see him, he was

infact received by the chuches of Galatia. He presented something that didn`t

drone on and bore the people. He noticed that people didn`t really know much

about Christ, so he decided to pass it on. Another minister named Jonathan

Edwards, gave such passionate sermons that it brought many peoples attention...

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...e General Conference of Methodism,

expulsion from the society was an effect from slave holding (Lecture 4).

A loss of power of the Ministers and clergy was an effect of the Great

Awakening. The Ministers and the Clergy were not able to control the direction

of religious life. This led to a religion to being a choice instead of being forced to

be something you don`t care much for. More people enjoyed the sermons and

actually felt good about it as well. This was an end to theocracy and a beginning

to democracy (Lecture 4).

Great Awakening was time period where many of the people received

more choices. A time where religion was revitalized. This time was very

prosperous for many people especially the colonies. Increase in religion,

education,understanding of equality, and a beginning to democracy were

many of the effects from the Great Awakening.

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