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How were the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment different?

Creating America: A History of the United States, McDougal Littell, 2005, page 140

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The Great Awakening stressed religious emotion, whereas, the Enlightenment focused on reason and science as the paths to knowledge.

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Creating America, pg. 140