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The First Great Awakening peaked across the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.

The Claim

The First Great Awakening was a major series of Christian evangelical revivals in the American colonies that occurred primarily during the 1730s and 1740s.

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The Short Version

The description accurately captures the First Great Awakening’s character, location, and principal timeframe. Historical sources consistently identify it as a major wave of evangelical Christian revivals in colonial America, with its defining activity concentrated in the 1730s and 1740s. Some accounts use broader dates to include precursors and aftereffects.

Caveats

  • Historical date ranges vary because some accounts include precursors from the 1720s or effects extending beyond the 1740s.
  • The revivals differed considerably in timing and intensity among colonies and denominations.

The Receipts

  1. Great Awakening

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  2. Religion in Eighteenth-Century America - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic | Exhibitions (Library of Congress)

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  3. [PDF] "Most Were Much Affected and Many In Much Distress:" The Great ...

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  4. "Most Were Much Affected and Many

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  5. The Great Awakening

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  6. The Theological Polemics of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield: Differences in Their Understanding of the "Great Awakening" of the 1740s in New England

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  7. Great Awakening | History | Research Starters | EBSCOhost

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  8. Great Awakening, religious revival, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, colonial America, Protestantism, evangelical movement, 18th century religious movements

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  9. Digital History

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  10. The Great Awakening

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