1. 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

2. Benjamin Franklin Born in Boston as one of 17 children. Worked for his brother in Boston as a printer’s 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.

3. 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

4. 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.