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And prepares the criteria and the results. Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth onto this continent a new nation with liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and it was those words Abraham Lincoln and the battlefield not far from where we sit today and the brilliance of those words, were not necessarily recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was on the featured speaker and it was actually Edward Everett senator from massachusetts and spoke for two hours lincoln waited to give the poignant closing words and today of course we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president speech in history. And people didnt necessarily see the speech that way at the time he was not the speech or speaker in front of fact that lincolns greatness will not recognize at the time in general. You have to remember t ....
Weve been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and were getting now into the 1700s. Today and this week i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and 40s. And i know this has been on you alls minds since you have a paper coming up. Were going to get to some background on religion in the colonial period and the leadup to the great awakening, some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening and, hopefully, thatll set you up better for your papers. You can see here on the screen we have an image of George Whitfield who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. He is the sensation of the age, but well talk more about him when we get there. First, i want to take a look at the background to whats happening in 18th Century America< ....
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