I.  Periods of Revival/Religious Intensity in American History
 Timeline of awakenings
 First Great Awakening  1730-1760
 Anticipations of Awakening:
  --Flavel's Sermons
  --Fox's Travels
  --Talbot Keith Journey
  --Wesley's Awakening at Oxford
  --German/European Pietism
  --Puritanism

II.  First Great Awakening
 New England Phase  1730's
 Mid-Atlantic Phase 1740's
 Southern Phase 1750's

III.  Awakening, Itineracy, and the Back Country
 Seaboard/Tidewater zone of Awakening
  --New England Churches
  --George Whitefield's travels
  --Samuel Davies travels
  --Wesley at Savannah
 Back Country zone of Awakening
  --Journey of Stearns & Marshall
  --New England, West Virginia, North Carolina
 Itineracy & Migration
  --already established routes in the eastern Appalachians
  --1730-1740 German Migration (tens of thousands)
  --1740ff  Scotch-Irish migration (millions)

IV.  Settlement Dynamics
 Fur trade in 1650 already reaches to the Appalachians (Bland)
 In 1650 there is already a Trade Route through the Carolinas
 Moravians and German traders in the back-country (Wachovia)
 By 1750, fur trade is across the Mississippi
 Tidewater is fully settled and the Piedmont extensively settled
 Fur trade "pulls" farms up-country
 Population shifts up-country away from low-country Anglicanism

V.  Awakening Themes
 Sin and Judgement
 Fire and Brimstone
 Resurrection
 Reformation of Life
 Experiential Religion
 Counter-point to Deism/Enlightenment
 Experience vs. Education & Establishment