The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment

Question 1

Great Awakening

Answer 1

• faith and emotions
• religious movements
• inner religious emotions were more important than religious behavior
• Jonathan Edwards
• evangelical
• spiritual rebirth/renewal
• increased religious diversity- Africans and Native Americans
• encouraged colonists to challenge authority and beliefs

Question 2

Enlightenment

Answer 2

• emphasized human reason and scientific observation
• challenged traditional social practices and valued justice and equality
• social and political change
• began in Europe
• government by agreement-government is created by people, so people should have the right to change it
• no divine right of kings (no monarch has the God-given right to rule) as previously thought

Question 3

Similarities between the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment

Answer 3

• independence
• offered ways people could change themselves, society, and the world
• sparked Americans to challenge Britain’s government