The Great Awakening<span> or </span>First Great Awakening<span> was a Protestant religious </span>revival<span>that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent </span>impact<span> on American Protestantism.
One significant effect of the First Great Awakening was that it caused division among religious groups, since there remained a "traditional religious establishment. I hope this helps.