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Colonists seek refuge
When people came from Europe to settle in the New World, many of the settlers in the North came for religious refuge. This populated the Americas with Protestants. -
Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan mother. She was greatly involved in religion (her father and husband were preachers). She herself preached. She was banished by the court for heresy and later killed by Native Indians. -
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The First Great Awakening
The first Great Awakening was an uprising of traditional family values. It was an evangelical movement that swept Protestant Europe as well as America. -
Jonathan Edwards
Edwards was a Protestant preacher. He was very invested in the Enlightenment was of thinking (facts and work over feelings and art). He shaped the First Great Awakening. -
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The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening was a protestant revival movement from 1790 to the late 1820s. Christia beliefs were held more closely and family values were reinstated. Republican motherhood formed. -
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The Third Great Awakening
The Third Great Awakening was a time of religious activism from the late 1850's to the early 1900's. This awakening contained a lot of social activism. -
Billy Sunday
Sunday was an Iowa baseball player who played for the Chicago White Socks in the 1880's. He then became an evangelical Reverend during the 1900's and 1910's. He gave an estimated 20 thousand sermons during his time preaching. -
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The Fourth Great Awakening
This Great Awakening was also called the Rise of the New Right or the Rise of Conservatism. After the Counter-Culture movement of the 1960's and early 1970's, conservative republicanism took hold of America. Even during the counter culture movement, republicans were the "silent majority". Ronald Reagan was the figurehead of the New Right and the Fourth Great Awakening. -
The Moral Majority
The Moral Majority only lasted for 1 year. It was a response to the rise of the New Right. Baptist minister Jerry Falwell founded it. It was a political organization but was heavily involved in Christian morals and evangelicalism. -
Billy Graham
Graham was an evangelical Christian (ordained as a Southern Baptist preacher and had a following consisting of Protestants). He founded the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, a non-profit with a goal of spreading the word of Jesus.