USA HISTORY

THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774

THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What young missionary gave his life to teach the Indians about the gospel?
A
David Breinard
B
David Brainerd
C
Tattamy
D
Johnathan Edwards
E
All of The above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Dickinson in 1742 first proposed that Brainerd become a missionary. To prepare himself, in 1743 Brainerd went to work with John Sargeant, missionary to the Stockbridge Indians.

Detailed explanation-2: -Early life David Brainerd on horseback. He travelled over 3000 miles on horseback as a missionary. Brainerd preaching in the open-air to Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Allen Chau had been trying to reach members of an isolated and protected tribe to convert them to Christianity. The people of North Sentinel Island had fired arrows at him in warning, and on his third attempt to visit the island, they killed him.

Detailed explanation-4: -He preached through an interpreter, Moses Tinda Tautamy, working among the Delawares, the Six Nations, the Senakes (probably Senecas), and Tutelas. He rode horseback along the Susquehanna and Delaware rivers, camping at night, his only home a cabin at the forks of the Delaware.

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