2.  Renewal of religious feelings in American colonies (1730s – 1740s)  Preachers become more dramatic; traveling preachers convert thousands.  People question traditional religious authority; individuals switched churches.  New Universities founded to train ministers (Princeton, Brown, Columbia).

3.  Intellectual movement that emphasized reason and the scientific method as a way of obtaining knowledge.  Men like Thomas Jefferson used reason to argue that men had natural rights that governments had to respect.

4.  What are two things that Benjamin Franklin did that show he was an Enlightenment thinker?  What are two things Jonathan Edwards did that show he was a man of the Great Awakening?