The Great Awakening Flashcards
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| 3121706130 | What was the Great Awakening? | A spiritual revival that swept through the colonies between 1730-1760 | 0 | |
| 3121714671 | Why did most colonists still need a revival even though they attended church? | To turn them back to God. | 1 | |
| 3121763506 | What was Jonathan Edwards? | a great Puritan minister who was one of the first leaders of the Great Awakening | 2 | |
| 3121772127 | What was another name for the Puritan churches? | Congregational churches | 3 | |
| 3121774471 | Why did Jonathan Edwards move to the frontier? | His church in Northampton would not let him preach anymore | 4 | |
| 3121778871 | Jonathan Edwards became president of what university just before his death? | Princeton | 5 | |
| 3121780495 | What church did John Wesley start? | the Methodist church | 6 | |
| 3121782399 | What was the mother of John and Charles Wesley? | Susanna Wesley | 7 | |
| 3121785155 | Where did John and Charles Wesley go to college? | Oxford University | 8 | |
| 3121787954 | Why did John Wesley start preaching in the open air? | The ministers in the Church of England did not want him to preach in their churches | 9 | |
| 3121791990 | How many times did George Whitefield come to America to preach the gospel? | 7 | 10 | |
| 3121793680 | Why did George Whitefield preach outdoors? | The churches supported by the colonial government were against Whitefield's preaching | 11 | |
| 3121796885 | Who was Whitefield's famous American friend? | Benjamin Franklin | 12 | |
| 3121799632 | What young missionary gave his life to take the gospel to the Indians? | David Brainerd | 13 | |
| 3121800557 | What was Tattamy? | David Brainerd's faithful Indian helper | 14 | |
| 3121804537 | In whose home did David Brainerd die? | Jonathan Edward's | 15 | |
| 3121806462 | How did the Great Awakening affect America? | It drew colonists together so that our country would truly become one nation under God | 16 | |
| 3121811787 | What pastored a church in Middleborough, Massachusetts, for 58 years and also worked to make America a free country? | Isaac Backus | 17 | |
| 3121815582 | Who was a famous missionary to the Indians? | David Brainerd | 18 | |
| 3121822378 | Who was the famous English preacher who started the Methodist church? | John Wesley | 19 | |
| 3121826235 | City where Jonathan Edwards pastored a church | Northampton, Massachusetts | 20 | |
| 3121829737 | College in England attended by the Wesleys and George Whitefield | Oxford | 21 |