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  2. Great Awakening, religious revival in the British American colonies between about 1720 and the 1740s. It was part of the religious ferment that swept western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century. Learn more about the Great Awakening.

  3. Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    The Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century.

  4. Great Awakening ‑ First, Second & Definition - HISTORY

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    The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was...

  5. What was the Great Awakening? Key Figures and Events -...

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    The Great Awakening in America, also known as Evangelist Revival, had tremendous social and political results in the 30s and 40s. Read a summary including facts, causes, affects, and influential leaders.

  6. The Great Awakening’s Role in the American Revolution

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    The Great Awakening (also known as the First Great Awakening) was a Christian spiritual revival that occurred in the Thirteen Colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In the early 1700s, American society was abandoning God, from the perspective of church leaders. Many in society were doing well for themselves as merchants, or in other skilled trades ...

  7. First Great Awakening, Summary, Facts, Significance

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    The First Great Awakening was a religious movement that took place in the American Colonies during the first part of the 18th century. It is most well-known for creating an emphasis on spiritual devotion, individualism, and freedom that contributed to the ideals of the American Revolution. Jonathan Edwards.

  8. Overview of the Great Awakening U.S. Religious Revival -...

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    The Great Awakening of 1720-1745 was a period of intense religious revivalism that spread throughout the American colonies. The movement deemphasized the higher authority of church doctrine and instead put greater importance on the individual and his or her spiritual experience.

  9. Great Awakening - Encyclopedia.com

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    The Great Awakening created a new definition of a "revival of religion" as a specific event manifesting God's gracious dispensation toward a church, town, or people.

  10. The Great Awakening - Gilder Lehrman Institute of American...

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    The most important religious development in colonial America was the introduction of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening. Religious revivals first appeared in England, Scotland, and Germany, and ultimately spread to the colonies.

  11. Great Awakening - Atlantic History - Oxford Bibliographies

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    The Great Awakening was the most profound social, cultural, and religious upheaval in the North American British colonies prior to the American Revolution. The most intense phase of these evangelical Christian revivals transpired in New England and the Middle Colonies in the early 1740s, but revivals associated with the Great Awakening began in ...