Question

During the Great Awakening, what led to the foundation of several colleges in the New England colonies?

A) New Lights and Old Lights founded colleges to train new ministers.
B) Old Lights established colleges because they believed that education was key to salvation.
C) Old Lights and New Lights established secular colleges to separate education from religion.
D) New Lights founded colleges to train new ministers for quicker secession from Old Lights churches.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) New Lights and Old Lights founded colleges to train ministers.

During the Great Awakening, what led to the foundation of several colleges in the New England colonies was that New Lights and Old Lights founded colleges to train ministers.

The Great Awakening is the period from the 1730s to 1740s when colonists in America lived a religious revival in the Protestant church. Some people wanted change and new perspectives in the practice of their faith. They were called the New Lights. Others preferred to stay the same, under traditional practices and beliefs. They were called the Old Lights. So in that time of the Great Awakening in Massachusetts, both New Lights and Old Lights, founded colleges to train ministers.

Answer 2

New Lights and Old Lights founded colleges to train new ministers is the correct answer