"we would build our camps with log frames, and cover them with boards and shingles. we would build a covered grandstand, large enough to hold five thousand people; and here they would come together from forty to fifty miles around, sometimes further than that. in one day, i heard ten different ministers preaching; each for three or four hours at a " josiah matthews, 1738 this journal entry would be of most use to a student writing a report titled a) "the enlightenment" b) "the abolition movement" c) "the first great awakening" d) "the protestant reformation"

The answer will be C) "The first Great Awakening". It was a revival o the protestant movement in the USA.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.