The Great Awakening

 

-The First Great Awakening began in the 1720s and lasted to about 1750. Ministers from various evangelical Protestant denominations supported the Great Awakening. one of the preachers being Jonathan Edwards, one of the major preachers. Causeing pastoral styles to change.

-The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second great awakening was strong in the north and midwest,also noteworthy to point out that this awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those that were less wealthy and less educated.