SS Chart (Enlightenment and Great Awakening)

Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

• Movement stressing human reason
• Based on reason and scientific observation
• Encouraged the belief that human beings could use rational thought to improve themselves and their society
• Benjamin Franklin
• Began in Europe
• Locke argued that humans didn’t have natural rights
• He was the author for the Enlightenment
• Opposed the belief that a king was gifted by a god
• Condemned tyranny and superstition

Question 2

Great Awakening

Answer 2

• Christian religious revival
• 1730s-1740s
• offered hope that each person could break from the past and begin a spiritual relationship w/ God
• Argued over religious practices
• Increased religious diversity
• Threatened the social system
• More difficult for one “established” church to control a colony’s religious life
• Allowed slaves to preach and women to speak in church
• Inspired colonists to help others
• George Whitefield drew people with sermons, raised funds to start a home for orphans
• Developed American identity by encouraging a belief in spiritual equality

Question 3

In common

Answer 3

• Challenging authority
• Offer people ways of changing themselves and their world
• Cultural movements