Great Awakening, The
The Great Awakening was the first real event in America that did not include any other country. The Great Awakening was a revivalism of religion and the purpose of going to church. Many ministers in congregations of different religions caused the people of their churches to fall to their knees to obey God in fear of hell. These events led to the realization of the need to go to church in many of the colonists in the 1730s and 1740s. The Great Awakening began among Dutch settlers around New Brunswick in Northern New Jersey, in the 1720s. The growth of towns, the increase of commerce, and the expansion of overseas trading caused new distractions from church. It spread in the 1730s to the Congregationalists under Jonathan Edwards in the Connecticut valley, and to Presbyterian revivalists (who had come directly from Northern Ireland to eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New York). These Scottish-Irish carried the movement with them, wherever they settled, mostly along the frontier from Maine to Georgia (Garraty 95). In America, the Awakening signaled the coming of an encircling evangelicalism, which is the belief that the core of religious occurrence was the “new birth,” inspired by the preaching of the Word. It invigorated
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