The rise of Methodists and Baptists during the Great Awakening challenged established churches and which aspect of society?

• A. Governmental order
• B. Economic systems
• C. Military authority
• D. Educational curricula

Answer: (A)

The rise of Methodists and Baptists in the Great Awakening challenged the authority structures that tied religion to government. These new groups promoted personal faith and voluntary church membership, often outside the state-supported, established churches that colonial governments backed. That shift weakened the government’s traditional control over religious life and, by extension, the social order built around established churches. The other options don’t capture the central change: the movement didn’t primarily target economic systems, military authority, or educational curricula; its main effect was on who held religious and civic influence and how religion related to government.