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GreatAwakeningEnlightenment.pptxLife in British North America
Pt. 3 – The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment
Great Awakening
Itinerant preachers, revivals
Old churches were boring
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Effects of the Great Awakening
Injects urgency, passion and emotion
Democratizes religion
Unites colonists against old authority
The Enlightenment
Empiricism: Evidence, logic and reason
John Locke: life, liberty, and property
People are good and should be left to manage their own lives
The Enlightenment in America
Scientific experimentation improves lives
Deism and religious tolerance
Little “r” republicanism
