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Notes about this image:Rean_and_Great_Awakening_24 Lack of religious freedom in early Virginia: Order of the Virginia House of Burgesses (the colonial legislature) "That there shall be in every plantation, where the people meet for the worship of God, a house or room sequestered for that purpose," and fines of tobacco imposed for non-attendance at the Church of England, 1623.
Citation:William Waller Hening, "The Statutes of Virginia, 1619-1792," (Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia, 1809-23). In Luther A. Weigle, "American Idealism [The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States]," (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928) vol. 10, p. 70.
Standard:8.1-1.00 the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor

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