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Let's learn about the new wave sweepin' across the Atlantic in the 1700s: The Great Awakening. Think for yourself, leave the rich, established churches, and don't listen to that guy. He isn't screaming and fainting during his sermons, like, at all.
Transcript
- 00:03
No doubt enlightenment thinking was a big part of what inspired [Light bulb appears over man's head]
- 00:07
the American Revolution and a constitution that follows but people
- 00:10
weren't only rebelling with their heads they were also rebelling with their
- 00:14
hearts and their souls while the Enlightenment was transforming science
- 00:18
philosophy and politics another social movement was revolutionising religion [Bible appears by man]
Full Transcript
- 00:23
this was called the first Great Awakening yeah it sounds like a time
- 00:28
when everybody woke up to a great big nap time but it was much more than that [Earth spinning and alarm bell rings]
- 00:32
like the Enlightenment first Great Awakening was a transatlantic phenomenon
- 00:35
that popped up in Europe as well as in the colony it makes total sense that it [Ship arrives on shore]
- 00:39
was a big deal in the American colony since many had been founded by people
- 00:42
looking specifically for religious freedom Puritans Quakers Catholics Jews
- 00:47
you name it these groups wanted to worship in their own way not monarchs
- 00:51
getting all up in there you know business if they wanted to pray to Jesus [People praying in church]
- 00:54
while wearing funny hats well that was their god-given right in Britain people
- 00:58
thought that God gave authority to the monarch when the colony's authority was
- 01:02
given to churches but when the first Great Awakening swept through the [Angel flys over church]
- 01:05
colonies in the 1730's and 40s all that changed the awakening made ideas popular
- 01:11
that would prepare the colonists to accept a different ideology and society
- 01:15
it was kind of like that Davy iPhone first hit stores and ever since we've [Girl using iPhone]
- 01:19
been swiping through life the leaders of the awakening were in your face
- 01:23
Christian preachers who attacked the state supported religion saying it got [Jonathan Edwards appears in church]
- 01:27
in the way of true faith the evangelical preachers said that religious experience
- 01:32
was all about being reborn up and down the colonies they fired up the masses [Baby appears from the ocean]
- 01:36
getting them excited about expressing their faith in Jesus as the savior of me
- 01:40
right they said that going to a big church and donating money was cool and [Money flys past man in church]
- 01:44
all but not as important as personal worship converts to Great Awakening
- 01:48
churches left traditional churches in its stampede the religious revival of [People running away from a church]
- 01:53
America's common folk led to big social changes to lower-class evangelicals
- 01:58
abandoned the wealthy established churches of the elite in the Church of
- 02:01
England lost members to the Baptist Presbyterians and Methodists and all of
- 02:06
a sudden the Church of England felt like the popular kid who will suddenly loses [Girl crying]
- 02:10
all her friends well maybe if she hadn't made out with Becky's boyfriend you know
- 02:13
just saying many of these newer sex believed even more strongly in
- 02:17
individualism than did the calvinist of the 16th century Protestant Reformation
- 02:22
that earlier Reformation had already made people question authority and think
- 02:27
for themselves what a concept but the Great Awakening took that independent
- 02:31
spirit and pumped it up with steroids we were going to accomplish you are the [Man and woman pumped up]
- 02:35
establishment churches said this showed poor sportsmanship but the newbies just
- 02:39
didn't care none of this was good news for a monarchy that relied upon lemmings [People worshiping monarch]
- 02:43
to obey its laws and to do its bidding the social tension heated by the Great
- 02:48
Awakening did not immediately boil over they simmered for decades more than 40 [Water boiling in pan]
- 02:53
years passed between the awakening and the coming of the American Revolution
- 02:56
when it finally did boil over into war it was piping hot and maybe a little
- 03:01
overcooked but it was wartime so you know people had other things to worry [Man appears in battle holding chicken leg]
- 03:05
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