Chapter 8: The Great Awakening

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spiritual revival that swept through the colonies between 1730 and 1760

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Great Awakening

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great Puritan minister who was one of the first leaders of the Great Awakening

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Johnathan Edwards

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famous English preacher who started the Methodist Church

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John Wesley

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Great Awakening preacher who came to America from England seven times to preach the gospel

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George Whitefield

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young missionary who gave his life to take the gospel to the Native Americans

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David Brainerd

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Indian who helped David Brainerd preach the gospel

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Tattamy

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Baptist preacher who worked to give America religious freedom

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Isaac Backus

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city where Jonathan Edwards pastored a church

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Northampton, Massachusetts

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college in England attended by the Wesleys and George Whitefield

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Oxford

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the dates of the Great Awakening

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1730-1760

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date revival breaks out in Jonathan Edwards's church

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1734

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date David Brainerd begins his missionary work among the Native Americans

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1744

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What were the leaders of the Great Awakening called?

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the spiritual Founding Fathers of America

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True or False

Many early colonists had not accepted Christ as their Savior an were depending on their good lives to save them.

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True

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True or False

Most of the colonies had laws saying that only church members could vote

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True

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True or False

Often people joined churches to please the government officials rather than in obedience to the Bible

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True

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True or False

Johnathan Edwards life changed when he stopped depending on his good works and accepted Christ as his personal savior

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True

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What opposition did Jonathan Edwards face once revival began?

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The Massachusetts government and strict Puritan leaders would not let him preach in Northampton any more. They wanted to be religious without personal salvation

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Where did Jonathan Edwards go when he left Northampton?

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Stockbridge, Massachusetts

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What school was Johnathan Edwards the president of?

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Princeton University

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What school did John Wesley study at?

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Oxford University

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True or False

The ministers in the Church of England wanted John Wesley to preach in their church

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False

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What did John Wesley do when he was rejected by the Church of England?

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He started preaching in the open air. He would travel by horseback from town to town and preach in the fields

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What school did George Whitefield attend?

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Oxford University

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When George Whitefield left England where did he go and what did he do?

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He went Georgia and began America's first orphanage and preached the gospel

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Who used George Whitefield's idea of preaching outdoors?

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John Wesley

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Where did George Whitefield go when he came to America for a second time?

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Philadelphia

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Who was one of George Whitefield's good friends?

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Benjamin Franklin

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True or False

George Whitefield was very concerned about the slaves in America and wrote a letter urging the colonists to treat the slaves with more kindness

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True

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True or False

Because of the Great Awakening, many Americans became missionaries to settlers in the frontiers of America and to the Native Americans

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True

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What school did David Brainerd attend?

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Yale

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What illness did many of the students at Yale come down with?

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Smallpox

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When David Brainerd recovered from smallpox and returned to Yale what happened?

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He became sick with tuberculosis

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What areas did David Brainerd minister to Native Americans in ?

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New York

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

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Where was David Brainerd when 70 Native Americans came to hear him preach?

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Crosswelk, New Jersey

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Where did David Brainerd go when he could no longer travel? He eventually died there.

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Jonathan Edward's home

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What preacher was responsible for America becoming a land that had freedom of religion through the separation of church and state?

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Isaac Backus

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What was another name for the Puritan churches?

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Congregational Church

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Who was the mother of John and Charles Wesley?

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Susanna Wesley

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How did the Great Awakening affect America?

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It drew the colonists together so that our country would truly become one nation under God.

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Who pastored a church in Middlebrook, Massachusetts, for fifty-eight years an also worked to make America a free country?

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Isaac Backus