American History question: 20. The Great Awakening emerged due to: a. the coloni

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American History question:

20. The Great Awakening emerged due to:

a. the colonial press claiming the church of England consistently called Americans evil

b. the work of Samson Occom

c. the trial of John Zenger whom argued colonist's needed more religious instruction

d. Old lights that thoroughly supported George Whitefield's enigmatic preaching style and boisterous speeches

e. none of the above

f. the elite planters in the south whom wanted more moral people to live among them in southern society

g. b & d

Explanation / Answer

SOLUTION:-

Option (e) is correct.

The First Great Awakening began in 1725 and lasted to about 1750. Ministers from various evangelical Protestant denominations supported the Great Awakening. Indeed, for an age of denominational strife and competition, the Awakening was strikingly ecumenical. Leaders of the Awakening such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield had little interest in merely engaging parishioners' minds; they wanted far more to elicit an emotional response from their audience, one which might yield the workings and evidence of saving grace .

Those attracted to his message and that of the itinerant preachers who sprang up across the colonies called themselves the "New Lights," and those who did not were called the "Old Lights." One manifestation of the conflict between the two sides was the establishment of a number of universities, now counted among the Ivy League, including Kings College (now Columbia University) and Princeton University. The Great Awakening was perhaps the first truly "American" event, and as such represented at least a small step towards the unification of the colonies.

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