Religion And Christianity In The First Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening was a religious movement that took place between 1720 and 1750, affecting every colony and greatly affecting history. People started feeling that religion was dull and not as important as it once was seen. Preachers began to fill like people were not putting their emotions on their faith. They wanted people to be physically and emotionally involved. This is where Chrtians began to turn away from the standard approach of worship. There was a change on how early American’s viewed worship and Christianity. One of the reasons of the Great Awakening was because the 1600’s was full of poor conditions economically, socially, and spiritually. For example: the Chesapeake settlers were very profit motivated and tobacco was mainly where their money was made from. Since they had such an obsession with money, they often let it get in the way of how they lived their daily life. Tobacco requires a lot of effort to grow. It is a very labor-intensive crop that also exhausts the land. They were constantly too busy looking for new land and new labor forces that they didn’t spend much time on building their community or religion. They were religious, but they

They were very devoted to their job, giving people a sense of compassion and emotional attachment. It was very informal in the way that they preached. They encouraged groups of people, who consisted of everybody, including, the rich and poor, blacks and whites, and both men and women, explaining everyone is equal in God’s eyes. This suggested social and political equality, making this such a huge impact on the time period. The outcomes of the Great Awakening are pivotal. Colonists began to fully comit theirselves to God. They began to be dauntless when confronting religious authority, and forming their own kind of way to express their faith. This all began to bring the colonists to a closer state of rebellion, better known as the American