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During the great wakening what led to the foundation of several colleges in the New England colonies

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During the Great Awakening evangelicals came up from the ranks of those who were Protestant. These were called “New Lights” as apodere the the “Old Lights” or Protestants. In order to educate their ministers serveral colleges were formed in the New England area. Two of these colleges later became Brown University and Dartmouth University.

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