The Great Awakening Basics
This movement was a major religious revival in the 1730s–40s.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This preacher gave the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This river valley was the most contested region at the start of the war.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This law forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
This law forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
European explorers searched for this water route across North America.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The Great Awakening was partly a reaction against this intellectual movement based on reason and logic.
What is the Enlightenment?
This English preacher drew massive crowds with his oratory during traveling revivals.
Who is George Whitefield?
These Native American groups primarily allied with the French.
Who are the Huron and Algonquin?
Colonists felt betrayed by the Proclamation because they fought the war to gain this.
What is access to western lands?
The Northwest Passage was meant to connect these two oceans.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
Preachers emphasized this emotional and personal religious transformation often called being "born again."
What is personal conversion / a “new birth” experience?
Edwards blended these two ideas in his famous sermon.
What are religious piety and Enlightenment logic?
The war was the beginning of global conflict, and the American Revolution's beginnings
What is the Seven Years' War?
This rebellion convinced Britain to restrict settlement to avoid costly conflicts.
What is Pontiac’s Rebellion?
The ultimate goal of finding the Northwest Passage was to reach this trade region.
What is Asia?
These “New Light” ministers were known for this style of preaching.
What is emotional, dramatic, or theatrical preaching?
This term describes ministers who rejected emotional revivalism.
Who are the “Old Lights”?
In 1763, this treaty ended the war and forced France to surrender its North American territory.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
British taxes introduced after the war sparked this famous colonial phrase.
What is “No Taxation Without Representation”?
This European empire controlled the long southern trade routes explorers hoped to bypass.
Who are the Spanish?
Name one long-term effect of the Great Awakening on colonial society.
What is weakening traditional churches OR challenging religious authority OR founding new colleges?
This group gained increased autonomy because the Great Awakening taught individuals they could interpret scripture themselves.
Who are ordinary colonists / individual believers?
Explain why the Ohio River Valley was so important to both sides.
What is fur trade control and western expansion / linking French Canada to Louisiana?
Explain why Britain felt justified in taxing the colonies after 1763.
What is the cost of war debt and protecting new territory?
Two valuable goods that motivated Asian trade routes.
What are spices and silk? (Others acceptable: tea, porcelain)