Chapter 4 Lesson 2 - American History

The Great Awakening was not one continuous revival, but several revivals in a variety of locations.

• True

• False

Neither the Anglicans or the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay were terribly successful in maintaining,

much less increasing, religious fervency among their converts.

• True

• False

Authoritarian structures of any sort — be they governmental or ecclesiastical — were widely

accepted.

• True

• False

Revival began in New _________________________.

The key test of one’s election, Whitefield asserted, was whether one had had an

___________________ experience of conversion.

The compromises of the Half-Way _________________________ were swept aside, and the notion

of the church as a body of saints was reclaimed.

In areas that were nominally Anglican, the Great _________________________ had little impact.

Jonathan Edwards preached his effective “_________________________ in the Hands of an Angry

God” sermon in which he used the image of a spider dangling by a web over a hot fire to describe

the human predicament.

Known as the “Great Itinerant,” George _________________________ had a loud voice, and it is

said one conversion occurred three miles from where he was preaching.

The First Great Awakening was a _________________________ event in the lives of the American

people.