what was the great awakening and how did it impact the united states
First Great Awakening The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its American Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement had a permanent impact on Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion. The Great Awakening marked the emergence of Anglo-American evangelicalism as a transdenominational movement within the Protestant churches. It also inspired the creation of new missionary societies, such as the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.[1] In the United States, the term Great Awakening is most often used, while in the United Kingdom, it is referred to as the Evangelical Revival.