Question

In which region of North America did the Great Awakening begin?

A.
the South
B.
the Midwest
C.
New England
D.
the Pacific Northwest
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Answer 1

The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

Answer 2

North America's Great Awakening began in New England.

• The Great Awakening was a religious revival in the British American colonies that occurred primarily between the years 1720 and 1740.
• It was part of the religious upheaval that swept Western Europe in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
• The Great Awakening was a reaction to society's increasing secularization as well as the corporate and materialistic nature of America's major churches.