<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its American Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s . The revival movement had a permanent impact on Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion . The Great Awakening marked the emergence of Anglo - American evangelicalism as a transdenominational movement within the Protestant churches . In the United States, the term Great Awakening is most often used, while in the United Kingdom, it is referred to as the Evangelical Revival . </P> <P> Building on the foundations of older traditions--Puritanism, pietism and Presbyterianism--major leaders of the revival such as George Whitefield, John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards articulated a theology on revival and salvation that transcended denominational boundaries and helped create a common evangelical identity . Revivalists added to the doctrinal imperatives of Reformation Protestantism an emphasis on providential outpourings of the Holy Spirit . Extemporaneous preaching gave listeners a sense of deep personal conviction of their need of salvation by Jesus Christ and fostered introspection and commitment to a new standard of personal morality . Revival theology stressed that religious conversion was not only intellectual assent to correct Christian doctrine but had to be a "new birth" experienced in the heart . Revivalists also taught that receiving assurance of salvation was a normal expectation in the Christian life . </P>

When did the great awakening start and end