1. Conflicts that Created Change
In Colonial America

2. The Great Awakening
During the early 1700s, many colonists feared they had lost the desire to practice their religion
1. This religious movement was
called the Great Awakening
2. To revive people’s religious spirit,
preachers went from town to
town holding outdoor “revival”
meetings

3. Men of the Great Awakening
Jonathon Edwards
Became one of the best-known preachers
3. He terrified listeners with images of God’s anger but promised they could be saved

4. Men of the Great Awakening
George Whitefield
Inspired colonists to help others
4. Drew thousands of people with his sermons and raised funds to start a home for orphans

5. Conflicts from the Great Awakening Created Change
5. In communities, the Great Awakening would cause religious group to argue and split apart.
The Great Awakening caused people to join other Protestant group such as Baptist

6. Outcomes from the Great Awakening
The Great Awakening helped to spread the idea that all people are equal in the eyes of God
6. Encouraged ideas of liberty, equality and resistance to authority
This will contribute to the colonists desire to reject the King of England in the American Revolution

7. Enlightenment
Unlike the Great Awakening (which was a religious movement), the 7. Enlightenment was an intellectual movement
It emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge

8. Men of Enlightenment Isaac Newton
One of the first scientists to practice Enlightenment
8. Discovered natural laws governing the universe
He was able to define the laws of gravity

9. Men of Enlightenment John Locke
Applied the idea of natural law to human societies
9. Argued that people have natural
rights
11. Life, liberty, property
He claimed that people create
government to protect their
natural rights
If a government fails in this duty,
people have the right to change it
10. He challenged that kings had a
“God-given” right to rule

10. 12. Men of Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson
American Enlightenment figure
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Used Enlightenment ideas in his declaration
Stated in the Declaration that “all men are created equal” and that people have certain God-given rights-Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness