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  • Great Awakening Begins in the New England colonies

    • "Jonathan Edwards preaches a series of stirring sermons that initiate the Great Awakening in the New England colonies. This religious revival movement is to sweep the American colonies during the next decade. Thousands of people are converted. As an aftermath of the Great Awakening, the conservative clergy and wings of the old Puritan churches lose ground as the Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians grow in power and influence. In the 1740s, the best known revivalist preacher is English evangelist George Whitefield."
    The Almanac of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Brompton: CT 1993. (p. 84)

 

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