Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0009 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Great Awakening and Enlightenment
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The idea
The First Great Awakening was an eighteenth-century revival that prized emotional, experiential faith over doctrine. The Enlightenment prized reason and science over tradition. Both spread across the British Atlantic at once.
In practice
A revival meeting in one town; Franklin's experiments in another.
Where people slip
They pulled in different directions yet shared one effect: each taught colonists to judge authority for themselves.
Your place on the trail
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