At the start of the Great Awakening,

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During the Great Awakening, most colonists lived in a colony with an officially sanctioned church, such as the Puritan church in Massachusetts or the Anglican church in Virginia. The Great Awakening was a religious revival that swept through the colonies, leading to increased religious fervor and the formation of new denominations, but it did not begin with a lack of churches or a lack of religious affiliation among colonists. Additionally, while there were certainly educated colonists who were instrumental in the Great Awakening, most colonists were not college educated or even literate at this time.

At the Start of the Great Awakening