THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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It was a reform movement aimed at improving the colonial educational system.
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It was a patriotic movement beginning just before the American Revolutionary War.
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It was a spiritual movement that reawakened colonial interest in Christianity.
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It was a cultural movement that emphasized the American experience in art.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. The correct answer is C. It was a spiritual movement that reawakened colonial interest in Christianity.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Awakening notably altered the religious climate in the American colonies. Ordinary people were encouraged to make a personal connection with God, instead of relying on a minister. Newer denominations, such as Methodists and Baptists, grew quickly.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Awakening was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century. The beliefs of the New Lights of the First Great Awakening competed with the more conservative religion of the first colonists, who were known as Old Lights.
Detailed explanation-4: -The revivals had weakened the hold of the established churches in colonial America, and large numbers of Christians joined new evangelical churches like those of the Baptists or Methodists. The Great Awakening also contributed to colonial religious liberty by changing the balance of religious power.
Detailed explanation-5: -What historians call “the first Great Awakening” can best be described as a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.