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The Great Awakening The Great Awakening is the name gi

The Great Awakening is the name given to a period of religious error in colonial America, and historians have considered the issue of how this affected the development of the new nation and the onset of the Revolutionary War. Many settlers came to the new country in the first place seeking religious freedom, and the Puritan ethic as a driving force in the development of the American character has been well documented. Yet, the era of the Great Awakening was different in degree and in kind from the usual religious sentiment, and historians have been analyzing this era and trying to find how it may have affected the American Revolution to which many historians have linked this awakening. Butler notes that historians have argued at various times that the Great Awakening cut intellectual and philosophical connections between America and Europe, that it was an important route for early lower-class protest, that it served as the means by which New England Puritans became Yankees, that it was the first intercolonial movement to bring people of different colonies together around a central concern, and that it should be linked directly to the American Revolution. An analysis of various historians and their approach will show some of the methods used by historians and how those methods have been applied to the particular question of the relationship between religion and the American Revolution.

Butler reports that Alan Heimert has called the Great Awakening the source of a Calvinist political ideology that shaped American society in the eighteenth century. Harry S. Stout sees the Awakening as a case of the development of a new system of mass communications that made the colonists more politically aware while also reducing their deference to elite groups. Isaac and Nash see the Awakening as the source of a simpler, non-Calvinist protest rhetoric that served to reinforce revolutionary ideology in widely separate areas. Butler finds tha...

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