Question

Which movement caused the established Churches in the colonies to split into factions and allowing the new denominations such as the Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists to add to their membership?

Answer 1

The great awakening.

Step-by-step explanation:

The First Great Awakening was a set of Christian revivals that spread through Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s.

This first great religious revival in America, while it united evangelicals across different churches around shared views, it too started a division in subsisting churches separating those who approved the revivals and those who did not. It prompted the Congregational and Presbyterian churches to split, both the Methodist and Baptist denominations were empowered.

Answer 2

The movement that caused the established churches in the colonies to split was The Great Awakening.

The great awakening occured between 1720 and 1740, it is designated as a religious revival. Jonathan Edwards is considered one of the chief fathers of this movement, he and other preachers stated: that all people are born sinners, that sin without salvation would send them to hell, salvation through confession of sins, that anyone could have a direct an emotional conection with God and that religion should not be formal and institutionalized.

This movement emerged in response to rationalism and the Enlightenment wich emphasized a cientific view of the world. Colonies had no unity on religion so christian leaders traveled from town to town preaching the precepts mentioned before. People embraced those precepts with renewed faith.