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]
Which movement caused the established Churches in the colonies to split into factions and allowing the new denominations such as the Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists to add to their membership?
A
The Enlightment
B
The Reformation
C
The inquisition
D
The Great Awakening
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Second Great Awakening, a religious revival movement, saw evangelical Christianity supplant the established religious patterns of the colonial and Revolutionary eras: the Methodist and Baptist churches grew and spread.

Detailed explanation-2: -The First Great Awakening was a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived. This feeling swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and 1770s. The revival of Protestant beliefs was part of a much broader movement that was taking place in England, Scotland, and Germany at that time.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Marked by a wave of enthusiastic religious revivals, the Second Great Awakening set the stage for equally enthusiastic social reform movements, especially abolitionism and temperance. choose to reject sin and instead to live morally up-standing lives. He also urged them to help others.

Detailed explanation-5: -Toward mid-century the country experienced its first major religious revival. The Great Awakening swept the English-speaking world, as religious energy vibrated between England, Wales, Scotland and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

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