Station #1 The Great Awakening

What was the Great Awakening?

Who were the leaders of the Great Awakening and HOW do you think they were able to make
names for themselves?

For what types of reasons do you think colonists were motivated to attend these awakenings?

Station #2 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Read the excerpt and draw a picture to illustrate the metaphor Jonathan Edwards is making in his
sermon.

Station #3 Love Divine All Loves Excelling Hymn by Charles Wesley

Read the lyrics as you listen to the hymn. Then answer the questions.
What is the main idea expressed in the lyrics of the hymn?

What is the author asking God for (at least two things)? What does this tell you about the author
and how he views the world and himself?

Station #4 God and Kings

What does Jonathan Edwards say about the power of kings?

According to Edwards, which is greater: the power of God or the power of Kings? WHY?

How could Edwards have influenced the colonists views on government with his ideas?

Station #5 The Great Awakening and the American Revolution

Why was the Great Awakening important?

How did peoples ideas about God affect their beliefs about Government?

How might the Great Awakening have affected the ties between individuals and their
communities or between religious authority and their congregation?

Station #6 Causes and Effects

Write one complete sentence that accurately summarizes the general causes of the Great
Awakening.

Which effect do you think was the most important for the future of the American colonists?
Explain your answer.

The Great Awakening

In the 17th and 18th Centuries, people began to
find the need for getting back in touch with religion.
This happened in a big way in the first half of the
18th Century. The First Great Awakening is the
most famous of the movements and is usually
referred to as simply The Great Awakening.
During these "awakenings," which were often held
outside or under a tent, a great many colonists
found new meaning (and new comfort) in the
religions of the day. A handful of preachers, such
as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield,
made names for themselves. As with many
movements in those days, the Great Awakening
began mostly in New England. Edwards preached
mostly in his home parish in Northampton,
Massachusetts, but was also known for publishing
many books. Whitefield, who began his career in
Georgia, was soon found welcoming
congregations up and down the Atlantic Coast and
inspiring people such as Ben Franklin, who
published several of Whitefields sermons in his
gazette.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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God and Kings

The wrath of kings is very much dreaded,

especially of absolute monarchs, who have
the possessions and lives of their subjects
wholly in their power, to be disposed of at
their mere will.But the greatest earthly
potentates in their greatest majesty and
strengthand when clothed in their greatest
terrorsare but feeble, despicable worms of
the dustin comparison of the great and
almighty Creator and King of heaven and
earth! It is but little that they can do, when
most enragedand when they have exerted
the utmost of their fury. All the kings of the
earth, before God, are as grasshoppers;
they are nothingand less than nothing.
Both their love and their hatred is to be
despised. The wrath of the great King of
kings, is as much more dreadful than theirs,
as his majesty is greater.

The Great Awakening

and the American Revolution

In one way, the Great Awakening paved the

way for the American Revolution. The
"awakening" of more and more people to the
teachings of various churches resulted in more
people being exposed to the idea that all
people were equal under God. And if people
were treated the same by God (meaning that
they were "saved" if they believed in Jesus,
the savior of Christianity), then those same
people could certainly be treated equally by
their government. Furthermore, the
enthusiasm and dedication to religious ideals
and the social and political ideas that often
came with these religious beliefs contributed to
the push for American nationalism and inspired
activism by the people.