Was there a great awakening in mid eighteenth century in America
Although generations of America have been taught that the colonies in America were founded by people fleeing religious persecution in England, many of those people were motivated by other factors to come. To be sure, the settlers of New England sought to escape the prosecutions established by the Church of England. Many colonists, however, did not adhere to the precepts of Calvinism and were therefore viewed as outsiders. The Quakers who populated Pennsylvania were mostly fugitives from New England, where they had been victims of religious persecution.
Although religion was a central element in the lives of the eighteenth century the settlers who migrated to the New World,
Although generations of America have been taught that the colonies in America were founded by people fleeing religious persecution in England, many of those people were motivated by other factors to come. To be sure, the settlers of New England sought to escape the prosecutions established by the Church of England. Many colonists, however, did not adhere to the precepts of Calvinism and were therefore viewed as outsiders. The Quakers who populated Pennsylvania were mostly fugitives from New England, where they had been victims of religious persecution.
Although religion was a central element in the lives of the eighteenth century the settlers who migrated to the New World,