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Log College established
William Tennent established the Log College, the first training college for Presbyterian ministers, in Pennsylvania, ca. 1725.
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Anne Hutchinson banished
Anne Hutchinson was banished from Massachusetts as “a woman not fit for our society.”
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Witchcraft executions in Salem
Bridget Bishop was the first person executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
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The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
Gilbert Tennent’s sermon “The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry” was published. Tennent used the sermon to attack ministers who resisted the call for revival.
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George Whitefield began preaching in North America
George Whitefield arrived in North America and began the first of seven revivalist tours in the British colonies.
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Great Awakening
A wave for religious revival and enthusiasm popularly known as the “Great Awakening” began in New England, ignited by Jonathan Edwards, whose sermons in Northampton, Massachusetts, emphasized human depravity and divine omnipotence.
The term “the Great Awakening” wasn’t broadly used to describe the religious revivals that took place in the American colonies from the 1740s to the late 1760s until the 1842 publication of Rev. Joseph Tracy’s book of that title. Modern historians disagree about the term’s usefulness. Those who employ “the...
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Princeton founded
The College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) was founded by seven Presbyterian leaders (Ebenezer Pemberton, Jonathan Dickinson, Aaron Burr Sr., John Pierson, William Smith, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, and William Peartree Smith) when Governor John Hamilton granted a charter for the college. The college’s founders had previously requested a charter from the late Governer Lewis Morris, a conservative Anglican who denied their request based on the group’s religious beliefs.
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Quakers
Established in seventeenth-century England, the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, was a Christian Protesant sect. Persecuted in both England and early colonial America, Quakers found a home in William Penn’s Pennsylvania, which supported Quaker adherance to pacificism, religious tolerance, and the equality of men and women. Quakers were also instrumental leaders of the abolitionist movement in colonial America and the founding era.
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Shakers
Founded in 1776 by English immigrant “Mother” Ann Lee, the Shakers believed that the millennium was at hand and that the time had come for people to renounce sin. Shaker communities regarded their male and female members as equals; thus, both sexes served as elders and deacons. Aspiring to live like the early Christians, the Shakers adopted communal ownership of property and a way of life emphasizing simplicity. Dress was simple and uniform. Shaker architecture and furniture were devoid of ornaments. The two most striking characteristics of...