Lesson 5.1: The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment

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Lesson 5.1 The Great Awakening and the
Enlightenment

• Today we will explain how the
• Great Awakening and the Enlightenment caused
  revolutionary feelings to grow in the colonies.

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Vocabulary

• explain give reasons for
• denomination specific religious group
• authority power to command
• intellectual having to do with the ability to
  think or to reason

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Check for Understanding

• What are we going to do today?
• What does it mean to explain?
• What are some religious denominations youve
  heard about?
• Who has the most authority in your home?
• Why would someone be described as intellectual?

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What We Already Know

• In Europe, people believed in the divine right of
  kings, which meant that kings got their power to
  rule directly from God.

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What We Already Know

• Many of the first colonists to settle in North
  America were very religious and came here seeking
  the freedom to worship God as they chose.

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What We Already Know

• By the early 1700s, ideas from the Renaissance
  and the Scientific Revolution were changing the
  way people saw the world, themselves, and their
  governments.

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The Great Awakening . . .

• was a religious movement.
• began because religious leaders feared that
  colonists had lost their religious excitement.
• stressed religious emotion over religious
  behavior.
• encouraged ideas of equality and the importance
  of the individual over the authority of the
  church.
• inspired a sense of nationalism among the
  colonists.

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The Great Awakening lasted for years and changed
colonial culture.

• Congregations argued over religious practices and
  often split apart.
• People left their old churches and joined other
  Protestant groups such as Baptists.
• Overall, churches gained 20,000 to 50,000 new
  members.
• To train ministers, religious groups founded
  colleges such as Princeton and Brown.

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Get your whiteboards and markers ready!
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Whiteboard Policies

• Use your dry-erase marker only to write your
  answers no doodling, no coloring, no fancy
  letters, etc.
• Put the cap on your marker when youre not using
  it.
• Display your answers by holding your boards under
  your chin (Chin it!)
• When the period is over, leave the whiteboard and
  eraser on your desk top.

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1. What was the Great Awakening?
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1. What was the Great Awakening?

1. It created a new sense of morality and a new
   interest in religion.
2. It caused church congregations to split apart and
   new denominations to be formed.
3. It led to the closing of several colleges.
4. It stressed religious emotion over religious
   behavior.
5. It led colonists to question authority, even that
   of Parliament and the king.
6. It was a philosophical movement that emphasized
   science and reason.
7. It inspired a sense of nationalism among the
   colonists.

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2. Why did religious leaders see a need for the
Great Awakening?

1. People were neglecting their personal
   relationship with God.
2. Christians were banning African Americans and
   Native Americans from their churches.
3. Many colonists seemed to have lost their
   religious passion.
4. Too many churchgoers were challenging the
   authority of their ministers.

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Major Figures of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards was a preacher who terrified his
listeners with images of Gods anger unless they
were saved.
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Major Figures of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield was a well-known preacher who
raised thousands of dollars for an orphans home.
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Impact of the Great Awakening on the Colonies

• Caused disputes and divisions among denominations
• New denominations created, some of which accepted
  women, blacks and Native Americans
• Religious colleges founded to train ministers
• Encouraged people to question authority, first of
  the church and later the British government

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Get your whiteboards and markers ready!
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Whiteboard Policies

• Use your dry-erase marker only to write your
  answers no doodling, no coloring, no fancy
  letters, etc.
• Put the cap on your marker when youre not using
  it.
• Display your answers by holding your boards under
  your chin (Chin it!)
• When the period is over, leave the whiteboard and
  eraser on your desk top.

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3. How did the Great Awakening contribute to the
Revolutionary War?

1. It inspired a sense of nationalism among the
   colonists.
2. It discouraged criticism of established
   authority.
3. It demonstrated that God was on the side of the
   colonists.
4. It gave Englishmen a sense of superiority over
   their European neighbors.

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The Enlightenment . . .

• was an intellectual movement that emphasized
  reason and science.
• was based on the belief in natural laws that
  controlled how the universe worked.
• scholars believed natural laws should be the
  basis of all government.
• taught that individuals have natural rights.

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Major Figures of the Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin was a famous American inventor
and political thinker.
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Major Figures of the Enlightenment
Charles-Louis Montesquieu was a French nobleman
who proposed a three-branch government to limit
the power of the government.
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Major Figures of the Enlightenment
John Locke was an English philosopher who argued
that governments get their power to rule from
the people.
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Locke argued that people have natural rights to
life, liberty, and property.

• People create governments to protect their
  natural rights, he claimed.
• If a government fails in this duty, people have
  the right to change it.
• Lockes ideas challenged the belief that kings
  had a God-given right to rule.

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Impact of the Enlightenment on the Colonies

• Made colonists begin to see the British
  government differently
• Led colonists to believe that governments should
  protect their natural rights, which came from
  Gods natural laws
• Encouraged people to question the authority of
  the government

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Get your whiteboards and markers ready!
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4. What was the Enlightenment?

1. A philosophical movement that emphasized science
   and reason
2. Belief in natural laws that govern the universe
3. Ideas drawn from Christianity, the Renaissance,
   and the Reformation
4. Support for the God-given right of kings to rule
5. Opposed in the colonies by Benjamin Franklin

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5. What ideas did John Locke have about
government?

1. It is the duty of every government to protect
   their citizens' rights.
2. All people are created equal, regardless of race,
   religion, sex, or nationality.
3. The people have a right to change its government
   if it fails in its duty.
4. Kings do not have a God-given right to rule.

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6. What Enlightenment ideas led the colonies to
break away from England?
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6. What Enlightenment ideas led the colonies to
break away from England?

1. It encouraged them to change their government if
   it fails to protect their natural rights.
2. It helped them see how helpful an alliance with
   France could be.
3. It led them to demand that the English king
   divide his powers of government into three
   branches, as Montesquieu suggested.
4. It caused them to believe that independence was
   part of Gods plan for America.

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Copy the following on PORTFOLIO p. 3.
The Great Awakening The Enlightenment
Description (9 lines)
Major Figures (9 lines)
Impact on the Colonies (9 lines)