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Who were the key figures that brought the Great Awakening to the colonies?
Who were the key figures that brought the Great Awakening to the colonies?
- John Calvin and Martin Luther
- Cotton Mather and Increase Mather
- The Wesley brothers and George Whitefield (correct)
- John Wesley and Johnathan Edwards
What was the main impact of the Great Awakening on colonial society?
What was the main impact of the Great Awakening on colonial society?
- It allowed people to express their emotions more overtly in prayer (correct)
- It sparked a renewed interest in Catholicism
- It led to the rise of deism
- It led to the decline of Christianity
What is deism?
What is deism?
- The belief in multiple gods
- The belief that religious truth can be proved with reason, without the need of an organized religion (correct)
- The belief that God is indifferent to human affairs
- The belief in the divinity of nature
