The Great Awakening contributed to establishing new educational institutions to train ministers, including Harvard.

• A. Harvard
• B. Yale
• C. Princeton
• D. Columbia

Answer: (A)

The Great Awakening spurred the founding of several new colleges to train ministers for the expanding revivalist denominations. This period saw mid-18th-century institutions established specifically to prepare clergy and spread religious revival across the colonies, such as Princeton, Columbia, and Dartmouth, rather than older schools that existed before the movement. Harvard, founded in 1636, was already in place long before the Awakening and was established to train Puritan ministers; its creation isn’t a product of the Great Awakening. So the idea that Harvard was started because of that revival doesn’t fit the timeline, while the broader point about new colleges during the era does.