USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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 being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.

Detailed explanation-2: -Revivals were mass meetings where people heard biblical messages and came to have their souls saved from sin (evil thought and action). This period of revivals began around 1800 and reached its peak in the early 1830s. It was a period of re-ligious fervor called the Second Great Awakening.

Detailed explanation-3: -A number of conditions in the colonies contributed to the revival: an arid rationalism in New England, formalism in liturgical practices, as among the Dutch Reformed in the Middle Colonies, and the neglect of pastoral supervision in the South.

Detailed explanation-4: -The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.