Great Awakening Quizs

One of the most famous and intellectual preachers of the Great Awakening. Known for his powerful sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

• George Whitefield

• Jonathan Edwards

• John Wesley

• Charles Finney

A belief in the importance of the individual person and their self-reliance.

• Collectivism

• Individualism

• Altruism

• Socialism

A series of religious revivals that swept through the British North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It involved passionate, emotional preaching and stressed a personal connection to God.

• Great Awakening

• First Great Awakening

• Religious Reformation

• Colonial Revival

A person's inner moral sense of what is right or wrong, which the Awakening emphasized over strict church rules.

• Individual Conscience

• Religious Doctrine

• Social Norms

• Cultural Traditions

Traditional ministers and followers who disapproved of the emotional style and traveling preachers of the Great Awakening. They preferred formal, traditional church services.

• Old Lights

• New Lights

• Revivalists

• Methodists

Relating to the teaching of the gospel, particularly emphasizing the authority of the Bible and the need for a personal, emotional conversion.

• Evangelical

• Fundamentalist

• Liberal

• Secular

Supporters of the Great Awakening and its emotional, new style of religious worship. They often favored new, more modern churches.

• Old Lights

• New Lights

• Traditionalists

• Reformists

The official set of beliefs, principles, or teachings of a religion or church. The "New Lights" questioned the established doctrines of the "Old Lights."

• Religious Doctrine

• Religious Ritual

• Religious Text

• Religious Tradition

Respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, or will of an authority figure. Before the Awakening, colonists often showed more deference to ministers and political leaders.

• Deference

• Obedience

• Rebellion

• Indifference

A time when people renew or increase their religious faith, often marked by large public meetings with powerful sermons.

• Revival

• Reformation

• Ritual

• Reconciliation