Compare And Contrast The Social And Economic Structures Of New England Society

Discuss the extent to which the religious schism during the sixteenth century was symptomatic of political, social, and economic problems.

To begin, the Great Awakening took place during the early 1730’s. It was a period where religious revivals were spreading along the Atlantic coast. Preachers such as Jonathan Edwards would go around and try to get people back into Christianity. One reason why colonist turned away from Christianity was because of the Enlightenment. He would describe hell and heaven trying to convince colonist to rejoin christianity.

As the Age of Enlightenment gradually came to an end, the British American colonists were ready to progress beyond the ideology of human reason and depend solely on biblical revelation. During the eighteenth century, a great movement known as the First Great Awakening swept through Protestant Europe and America, leaving a permanent impact on

In the late eighteenth century, North American British Colonies worked to free themselves and create their own governing body. Some ideas stated by revolutionaries helped to unite the colonies in a single governing body and revolt against the existing government. The primary driving forces of the revolutionaries included the belief that humans had the right to freedom and to govern themselves, and that they had certain natural rights that the ruling government of Britain was not allowing them, as well as a general hatred for the ruling power of the European monarchy. These ideas that were so prevalent in the colonies were stated by many different revolutionaries, but many of them held the same idea, freedom was a right that was shared by all

The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that gave new religious applications of old Enlightenment ideals of democracy and

The Enlightenment was a European intellectual movement that sparked a new way of thinking. In the 18th century, people were questioning whether the church should have the excessive amount of power it had. Since the British had the power in America, colonials were beginning to be enlightened similarly to Europeans. One of

Between 1790 and 1840 several Americans were searching for restoration, a new start, not only religiously but communally, and while some found their light others were hopelessly lost in darkness awaiting their savior, and that is why this era is appropriately named The Second Great Awakening. While the movement is described as a reaction, or backlash, against religion, skeptics, and philosophy to some, others believed that the Awakening declared a new age. Some say the Second Great Awakening progressed the basic concepts of many reform movements designed to remedy the sins of the nation before the foreseen second coming of Christ. The Kingdom of Matthias by Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz demonstrates

The Great Awakening was a revival of religion in North America in the 1740s, led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. During that time, people started thinking more about free will. In their sermons, religious leaders emphasized everyone can be healed by God, including people who the Christian church had previously denounced as not faithful, such as the Baptists and Quakers. The Great Awakening also caused democratization in the north American colonies, revolutions in America (and Latin America) and it changed some people’s viewing for slavery. Although the Great awakening began as a reform in religious and philosophical thinking, it eventually led to the profound political changes of the American Revolution.

During the first half of the 18th century two majorly influential movements greatly impacted America. These movements are known as the Enlightenment Era and the Great Awakening. Enlightened thinkers including Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, and Thomas Paine greatly impacted how Americans thought and viewed various issues. Secondly, religious leaders, such as, George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, ultimately caused the Great Awakening by preaching. Overall, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening improved colonial American life in numerous ways by enduring scientific experiments, beginning to establish a form of government, assisting the colonists to think for themselves, and question their government.

In the 18th century, Enlightenment and the Great Awakening changed the idea of freedom for the colonists. The Great Awakening was a time of religious revival in the colonies. Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the 18th century which emphasized economic and political freedom. American and British tensions grew in this time period due to Britain wanting America to be under the king’s control. Enlightenment, the Great Awakening, the Founding Fathers, and different social groups changed the ideas of freedom and equality. During the American Revolution, the idea of freedom changed from Enlightenment and the Founding Father’s ideas of economic freedom, to equality in social groups such as slaves, Native Americans, and woman.

Prior to The Great Awakening was a period of time called The Enlightenment. During this time, prominent men

The Great Awakening was a movement of religious beliefs, practices and relationships in the American colonies. Revivals spread-out in all the colonies . Peaches on self religious practices of today came from this movement. People begin to branch out and practice other religions and not just the one that was begin taught from the beginning.

A revitalization of religious piety that swept through American colonies during the 1730-1770 was known as the Great Awakening. Christian life was of real importance to the North American colonists. And yet, during the eighteenth century, the Great Awakening can be described in several areas of religious revivals history. This was a schism that was made more acute by the enormous Pietistic wave. While reviewing the Great Awakening, if understanding correctly, it focuses was about the people that were in the church already. As, a result, this brought about a change to their piety, self-awareness also rituals (Gonzalez 288-289).

According to historian Jonathon Israel, “until the 1650s Western civilization was based on a largely shared core of faith, tradition and authority.” These Enlightenment ideas, he argues, were what “caused the change that eventually led to the revolutions of the latter half of the 18th century and the early 19th century” (Israel, 2002). No matter how people choose to define it, the amount of damage that Enlightenment caused the Catholic church, directly and indirectly, was beyond repair. Concealed deep inside the very core of the Enlightenment was the impression that man’s pursuit and obtainment of knowledge was dominate to religion. This means that if someone was not able to prove something by their system of analysis or reasoning, then it must not exist.

The Enlightenment was a time when the people of Europe used human intellect to help comprehend what to believe, especially in terms of their faith. The Catholic Church did not want the outside influence of those that felt as though there were alternatives to the catechism of what the Church taught as truth. The theory that science is based on the assumption that God is an "unnecessary hypothesis" in which there is no need to have in faith in order to prove and understand scientific theories is very evident in the ideas that Marx tried to express in the Communist Manifesto.1 Thus, scientists felt as though