What Was The Difference Between The Great Awakening And Religion

Because the Great Awakening caused different denominations of Christianity to be formed, the Great Awakening also caused the separation of church and state. The Great Awakening caused there to be a separation between the “New Lights” and the “Old Lights”. Also, the Great Awakening introduced a new type of thinking and teaching. The new thinking involved the idea that anyone could receive salvation, and the new teaching accommodated to this new belief. Evangelism was this new way of preaching and was received best by the “New Lights”. This new belief and way of preaching, however, was not accepted by the “Old Lights”, thus the separation and creation of new denominations in the Christianity. Because the puritan church was supported by taxpayers, when the church split, there were too many denominations to be supported by the government. Those in different denominations would not want to support the puritan church, so the government could no longer support it. This is why the church and state split.
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The British did not send troops to the colonies for quite some time at the beginning of the French and Indian War. The unwillingness of the king to send troops angered the colonists, since they needed back up. The colonists had to fight on their own and this created a sense of unity among the colonists. Then, after the French and Indian War had ended, the King of Britain placed the Proclamation of 1763 on the colonists. The Proclamation of 1763 basically said that the colonists could not settle past the Appalachian Mountains. Since the colonists had basically just fought and won the land all by themselves, it made them so angry to have it taken away. Tensions began to build and the American Revolution occurred