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The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening were both periods in which people were inspired by new ways of viewing the world, and therefore life in the English colonies was significantly affected because of them.
In the English colonies, the Enlightenment led to a separation of faith from science and “profoundly conditioned the relationship between church and state.” The Enlightenment was characterized by human reason and discovering the laws of nature. This idea of a Natural Law would mean no slavery, as well as religious toleration. Thomas Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment and would later use these, as well as other philosophies, to create the structure for the American governm
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government. Those like Jefferson, such as Voltaire, who turned to reason and science for explanation, thought that by discovering the "laws of nature" humanity could be improved; “reason was the highest virtue” and to improve society, reason must be improved. The Enlightenment led to the Deist belief in God, whom Voltaire called a clockmaker that planned the universe and set it in motion. Nothing could interfere with His plans, a philosophy somewhat in contrast to the Puritanical beliefs on predestination. The idea of experience was attractive to colonists of all religions, regions—it was attractive to America as a whole. This experience was obtained by observing and watching Natives and the learned skills would prove useful for the economy. One learner and experimenter, Benjamin Franklin, contributed a fair share of inventions to the enlightened period such as the “Franklin stove,” which made living conditions in the colonies much more comfortable. Education also became
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important in the colonies during this time and universities, such as Harvard in 1636, were established.
In many ways the Great Awakening was a reaction to The Enlightenment; education, parallel in development with The Enlightenment, is what led to the Great Awakening. New leaders emerged with the start of the movement. Evangelistic men, such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, both emphasized on the fact that religion was becoming too intellectual, and that a balance between rationalism and emotionalism needed to be restored in religious faith. During this religious revival, thousands of sinners were saved and converted, though there was also a backfire to the plan. Instead of bringing order, such as was hoped for, the Great Awakening created more denominations. A split occurred, between those who remained suspicious to the Great Awakening (“Old Lights”) and the “New Lights” who broke off into the new denominations.
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The desire of the “New Lights” for a new kind of preacher led to the founding of new denominational colleges to train men in the work of God
Both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening paved the way for the Revolution. The Enlightenment stimulated optimism; the Great Awakening told its followers to look inward and scrutinize their hearts. They encouraged an individualism that would come to characterize Americans.
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