APUSH- 1st and 2nd Great Awakenings

1st great awakening

Reaction to the Enlightenment

Focus on using science and natural laws

New lights were associated with the 1st great awakening and appealed to the passions of the people rather than their reason

Old light ministers were the opposite not a lot of emotion in their sermons

John Edwards started the ga sinners in the hands of an angry god

This led to an increase in church sects

The number of women in the church increased

Led to the American Revolution

2nd great awakening

Religious revival

Charles Finney's spiritual rebirth, self-improvement, abolitionism

WOMEN heavily involved

Inspired reform movements

Believed individuals could achieve salvation through their own efforts

Both

Relied on emotion

Increased women in church

New sects developed

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