Troy-+Great+Awakening

1. **The Great Awakening -** People felt as if they were waking up with new faith, and it also helped create a demand for the seperation of church and state.

2. **Sermon** - A speech about a moral issue.

3. **Faith** - Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.

4. **Church** - A place to learn about God and what he did.

5. **Jonathan Edwards** - He helped inspire the Great Awakening with his sermons and was its most important theologian.

6. **George Whitefield -** He was one of the most famous preachers to huge crowds throughout the colonies 1739 - 1740.

7. **Minister -** A person who is authorized to perform religious functions in a Christan church.

8. **First Great Awakening -** It happened in the 1730s and 1740s. It resulted from powerful preaching that gave listeners a sense of personal guilt and of their need of salvaiton by Christ.

9. **Second Great Awakening -** It took place between 1800s to about 1830. Charles Finney and Peter Cartwright were famous preachers. They road horses to different towns to preach.

10. **Third Great Awakening -** It began in 1880 - 1910. This period had very active missonary work and started religous denomination.

11. **Fourth Great Awakening -** Happened in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Some people feel that the fourth Great Awakening never happened.

12**. Joseph Tracy -** was the minister and historian who named this era in his book __The Great Awakening.__ =__**Timeline of Events of the Great Awakening**__= =**//(1734)//** Jonathan Edwards sparks the Great Awakening.= =//**(1735)**// John Van Zandt whips a slave to death sparking racial tension in New York. Women gain civic and economic power in the colonies.= =//**(1736)**// John and Charles Wesley arrive in Georgia as a guest of James Oglethorpe.= =//**(1737)**// Reformers in Boston destroy a house of ill repute. William Penn's son Thomas swindles Indians with the "Walking Purchase".= =//**(1738)**// Methodist preacher George Whitefield arrives in Savannah, and his electrifying sermons fuel the religious fervor of the Great Awakening. John Winthrop becomes mathematics chair at Harvard.= =//**(1739)**// Slaves from Charleston, SC are killed trying to get to Spanish Florida. French explorers Pierre and Paul Mallet discover the Rockies.= =//**(1740)**// War escalates into King George's War.= =//**(1741)** Jonathan Edwards delivers powerful sermon to cap off "Great Awakening". Massachusetts fishing fleet reaches 1000 boats.//= =//**(1742)**// Colonists are attacked by Spanish in the War of Jenkin's Ear.= =//**(1743)**// Quaker John Woolman was the first to preach against slavery. [|The American Philosophical Society] is formed in Philadelphia. Ben Franklin retires at age 37 to pursue scientific and public ideals.=