Key Events
The revolution of the American colonies against Great Britain in 1776.
What is the American Revolution?
English hymn writer
Who is Isaac Watts?
Renewed and more active attention to religion; an awakening of men to their spiritual concerns.
What is revival?
American scientist & diplomat
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Jean Fragonard's painting (1766) in the Rococo style, a popular fanciful style of art among the aristocracy just prior to the French Revolution.
What is The Swing?
First used to efficiently pump flooded mines; catalyst for other inventions.
What is the Steam Engine?
Evangelist of Great Awakening
Who is George Whitefield?
Real penitence; sorrow or deep contrition for sin and is accompanied and followed by amendment of life.
What is repentance?
Empress of Russia
Catherine the Great
The most famous oratorio ever written, George Frederich Handel wrote this glorious masterpiece in 1741 during the early years of the Great Awakening.
What is the Messiah?
The first to land on the coast of Antarctica. He mapped the coasts of Australia and New Zealand. He was the first European to explore the South Pacific.
Who is Captain Cook?
Slaver turned preacher
Who is John Newton?
Expressing fear, awe, gratitude, or esteem of things sacred.
What is reverential?
First U.S. President
George Washington
Generations have been blessed by this song written in 1779 by John Newton, a former slave ship owner who was gloriously converted.
What is Amazing Grace?
A period in the 1700s when European scientists and philosophers began examining the world through reason, or human intellect, rather than religious or spiritual faith.
What is the Enlightenment?
Moravian Church leader
Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder.
What is awesome?
King prior to revolution
Louis XVI
James Watt's steam engine, used to spin yarn and weave fabric much faster than human workers could and also powered boats which could move quickly through the water regardless of the wind, ushered in this revolution changing forever the way we do business.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Religious revival in the American colonies in the 1700s during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.
What is the Great Awakening?
Founded Sunday Schools
Who is Robert Raikes?
A change of heart in man, by which his disposition and temper are conformed to the divine image.
What is transformation?
Prussia's Enlightenment king
Who was Frederick the Great?
A term used by French author and scientist Carolus Linnaeus to denote the classification of plants and animals into their various "kinds," or classifications.
What is Taxonomy?