The Great Awakening was a period in which people began to question traditional authority in both politics and religion. For this assignment, answer the following questions. Each question should be answered in at least two complete sentences. 1. Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Charles de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were all philosophers who wrote about ideas that would later be used in the government of the United States. Which idea or concept do you feel is the most important and why?

2. Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield were the two most prominent preachers during the Great Awakening. Who do you feel was more impactful and why?

3. Not everyone was in favor of the changes that occurred during the Great Awakening. Why would a minister or person be against religious changes in the colonies?

4. The Great Awakening prepared people for the revolution during the 1770s. How were people prepared, and why did this happen in the colonies?

1. An idea I feel is most important is the right to elect people in office. This gives us citizens the right to decide who's in our government, and who needs to be taken out.

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in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.

four sitting presidents have been assassinated while in office but the first was abraham lincoln,