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Write an essay that is at least 200 words long comparing and contrasting the enlightenment and the great awakening in your answer include the main concepts of both movements and show how each movement influenced American colonies

Answer 1

The Enlightenment was an eighteenth-century intellectual movement that encouraged Americans to think about the universe and nature rationally and not blindly follow religious dogma and superstitions. This movement promoted reason in the workings of the universe and scientific inquiry. Sir Isaac Newton’s theories about a mechanistic universe created by a rational God and John Locke’s ideas about education and religious freedom inspired Enlightenment thinkers in Europe and America. Significant proponents of the Enlightenment in America were Benjamin Franklin and preacher Charles Chauncy.

The Great Awakening emerged was a religious revival that was based on the belief that humans were inherently sinful and could attain salvation only through penance and a complete dependence on God’s grace. The main proponents of the Great Awakening were preachers such as George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Gilbert Tennent, and James Davenport. These preachers developed a new theatrical kind of preaching. These emotional sermons resulted in mass conversions to a more evangelical form of Christianity.

While the Enlightenment intellectuals focused on reason and logic, even when it came to religious beliefs, the Great Awakening revivalists believed that emotion was integral to religion in an age of growing religious apathy. The Enlightenment taught Christians to question irrational religious dogma. On the other hand, the revivalists insisted on a complete, unquestioning faith. While the Enlightenment believed humans to be capable of improvement and progress and that their morality and good works could lead them to salvation, revivalists believed that humans are inherently sinful and could attain salvation only through grace. Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening involved Protestant Christians. Diverging beliefs led the American Protestants in the mid-eighteenth century to split into two groups, Old Lights and New Lights.

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Answer 2

Many movements took place in the America and that influenced the American colonies.

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Lists of the movements that influenced the American colonies:

The civil Rights movement: the movement cam up after the American Revolution when the Africans (who were the salves) demanded for the equal rights in the country as the Americans had. This movement spread the equality in the American colonies and gives gave the space to the African people in the country.

The American Revolution: This movement was a fight between the Great Britain and American in which American fought against the British power to have the freedom. America's independence war brought a new twist in the history of European colonialism.

The Abolition movement: This was an anti-slavery movement which took place against the slavery system in the American colonies. This was helpful in ending the slavery practice

The women’s right movement: This movement started in 1848, when the women collectively came and demanded for the equal right the men had. They demand equality not on the work place but in the government function too. This movement changed the status and condition of the women in the American society.