The Great Awakening swept the world, as religious power pulsed between England, and the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. In America, the Awakening signaled the foundation of an encircling evangelicalism, the belief that the spirit of religious practice was the "new birth," stimulated by the preaching of the "Word." ... The followers of the Awakening and its evangelical force developed into the largest American Protestant denominations by the earliest decades of the nineteenth century. ... Christianity spread amongst the American colonies, including the "Indians" and the "African Ameri...

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