Benjamin Franklin The Great Awakening

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Benjamin Franklin The Great Awakening

• c. Identify Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of
  social mobility and individualism
• d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening

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Benjamin Franklin

• Born in Boston as one of 17 children.
• Worked for his brother in Boston as a printers
  apprentice.
• In 1723,at the age of 16, he ran away to
  Philadelphia, with a little more than a dollar in
  his pocket.
• Became an inventor, a supporter of the American
  Revolution, a statesman, and a major figure in
  the Enlightenment.

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The Great Awakening

• Stressed a dependence on God and was widely
  accepted by farmers and slaves
• -Preachers used revivals as a means of
  spreading their message
• -Jonathan Edwards Preached in New England
  stressing the need for repenting in order to be
  born again

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The Great Awakening

• George Whitefield Based in Philadelphia,
  believed that all ministers must be reborn.
• In the South, the Baptist movement reached out to
  freemen and slaves.
• The Great Awakening was one of the last major
  cultural developments prior to the American
  Revolution.