The Great Awakening was the first real event in America that did not include any other country. The Great Awakening was a revivalism of religion and the purpose of going to church. Many ministers in congregations of different religions caused the people of their churches to fall to their knees to obey God in fear of hell. These events led to the realization of the need to go to church in many of the colonists …showed first 75 words of 1616 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1616 total…The Congregationalists in New England suffered losses. Many conventional people, disgusted with the unrestrained excesses of the evangelists, went over to the Anglican Communion where respectable people might worship with decency, untroubled by a noisy preacher shouting that they were damned. The Great Awakening, like other Protestant upheavals, was a disrupting influence. Not only did the Great Awakening bring about religious confusion, but it had subtle repercussions on politics in the next decades (Wright 94-95).