This caused the colonists mindset to change from being on the verge of atheism to become a religious colonies and people who returned to god. .
The Great Awakening sadly only lasted a short period of time. After which people returned to their former ways of loosing sight of God. The Great Awakening however brought many people back to God. It saved people from loosing sight of morality and following law. It weakened the idea of an established religion, which made all people pay taxes to a religion that they did not believe in. The Great Awakening was not about any one sect of Christianity; rather it was about God, and returning to him. In many ways, we can contribute many of the United States of America's prosperity to this short period. .
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With the Great Awakening, came a disturbance in colonial culture, a competing epidemic known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was essentially the exact opposite of the Great Awakening. It was the growing interest in science and technology. The Enlightenment served as a catalyst for the upcoming American revolution. .
The Enlightenment played a key role on religion, science, education, and law. It was "the revival of science." People began to pay more attention towards science and secular ideas. The top colleges today in the United States are known as Ivy League colleges. These include Yale, Harvard, Columbia, etc. These colleges were all founded by colonists as schools of bible. There primary focus was teaching bible, and morality. During the enlightenment these schools added science, mathematics, literature, and history to their curriculum. The primary focus of colonists was now secular. Education was completely reformed due to the enlightenment. .
Modern day America has many freedoms and rights. These rights were revolutionary in the time of the revolution. Nowhere in the world was there a government that created a law of separation of Church and state.