Ms. Nicoll History Unit 1 

 
Name: Demian Schatt 

Date: September 1st, 2017 

Class: 8th Grade - US History 

 
 
Main Idea:​ ​Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the
Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor.
 
Topic Student Notes

● Shift of ideas between collectiveness to individualism

○ An idea from where the king rules everything to
where people can influence the government
● Started by religions
● Preachers traveled through the 13 colonies spreading their
The Great 
messages to colonists in the 1730’s
Awakening - Morals 
● Guys like Jonathan Edward and George Whitefield wanted
to inspire people to go to church again
● Talked about God seeing everyone as equal - started to
influence politics
● King and Peasant on the same level.

● Started among Presbyterians in New England

● It was a reaction against the formality of the established
congregational churches
The Great  ● That led to thriving colleges
Awakening -   ● First common experience shared by large numbers of
Political Ideas  Americans and that started the development of the American
identity.
● This movement led to a fissure with people who wanted
more it to be more traditional

● People started reading the bible at home instead of listening

to a priest in a church.
● There was individualism in religion - instead of going to
Revolutionary  church as a specific time it more like “what time works for
Fervor  me to read the bible?”
● There was an idea that people could be saved if they have a
personal connection with God. The value of a person was
not by their blood (not about their social hierarchy) it more

 
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about their morals.

● The enlightenment was an idea that anybody could be who

they wanted to be.
● The main idea was that two social and political movements
led to people wanting independence.
“New World”  ● It matters now because these political and social movements
Revolutionary Ideas  still influence American Society.
● It didn’t matter if you were a king or a peasant they were
still equal. Now the peasant could become president.
● ​The great awakening that was about religion led to the
enlightenment which was about science and politics.  

1. People had their own ideas and they thought of 

themselves as their own person with their own 
individual thoughts and that led to the Revolution.  
How do the ideals of 
 
the Great 
2. The political and social movements created an image 
Awakening and the 
for the American culture  
American 
 
Revolution relate to 
3. They were both about independence and everyone was 
each other?  
seen as equal to everyone. 
 
 

   
 

 
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