The Great Awakening was an influential event in the life of the American people. Before it was over, it had swept the colonies of the eastern seaboard, transforming the social and religious life of land. The Great Awakening of 1735-1745 was a reaction to a decline in piety and a laxity of morals wit...

The Rocky Mountains are a great chain of rugged mountain ranges in western North America, extending from central New Mexico to northwestern British Columbia, about 2000 miles. The Rockies are boardered on the east by the Great Plains and on the west by the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain Trench. Th...