What were the reasons for the revival movement known as the Great Awakening?
One chief cause for the Great Awakening was that people feared that religious beliefs were declining both in Europe and in America. It caused Americans to become more involved in religion and fear progressive movements. It was a straight out opposite of the Enlightenment although the enlightenment was more rational and was meant to help support religion. Colonists responded by worshiping more than ever because one of the ways the Great Awakening was brought on was by terrifying the church goers and emphasize how bad hell was. It was much like Calvinism. This led to the division of congregations as people had to chose between the new light and science, very liberal, or stay the same way, and fight harder than ever to stay religious, and make progress through god, live their lives based on their passage to heaven, conservative. Religion played a very large role in the advancement of education. For starters all colleges up to 1763 except for 3 were established by religious groups to train
