watch the video on the Enlightenment and the First Great Awakening, answer all prompts in the following discussion question. Make sure to include relevant points to your answer and make sure that your information is correctly cited.
- Based on what you know about the Enlightenment, the Great Awakening and the American Revolution summarize the relationships between all three and explain your answer.
- How was American society impacted by the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening?
- We speak of “liberty” today. What in your own opinion do you believe the people were seeking when thinking of liberty in terms of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. In other words, explain what liberty in terms of human rights and religious freedom mean to you and what you think it meant to eighteenth-century Americans.
- Finally, we are speaking of concepts that are hundreds of years old. What value do you see them having today, if any?