All of the following represented ways that the First Great Awakening changed American society EXCEPT
A) free and slave Africans and American Indians were converted and became enthusiastic members of religious bodies.
B) women responded to the religious energy positively and converted at an even greater rate than men.
C) the Awakening transformed American higher education including the creation of new pro-revival colleges and universities such as Dartmouth and Princeton.
D) Enlightenment ideas about reason and faith fell out of favor by colonial political and economic leaders through the 1750s.
Answer: D
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