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The First Great Awakening was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s; there was a de-emphasis on ritual and ceremony and religion became intensely personal.
The First Great Awakening was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. There was a de-emphasis on ritual and ceremony and religion became intensely personal to the average person by creating a deep sense of spiritual guilt and redemption.

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The First Great Awakening was a religious revitalization movement that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s; there was a de-emphasis on ritual and ceremony and religion became intensely personal.