Author: Natacha Martinez
Instructor: Fruge
Date: April, 4 2013
The Artifact
Camp Meeting Song Lyrics Artifact
Tell our audience about the artifact.
I discovered an amazing historical song from a camping meeting in my grandparent's attic.
It is a song. The son was created by The Camp-meeting chorister in the year 1830.
I think it was made because people loved to sing in the past. It is a song about freedom.
People who would have read or studied this item at the time it was created were people who thought singing these song were probably going to tell the problems or situations that were going on.
I think it is worth studying today because: you know the type of music they sang and it unique in its own way.
Discuss how the artifact relates to a major event in U.S. history.
The event that this artifact best relates to was the Second Great Awakening.
This happened around the years 1730s and 1740s .
One reason this event occurred was because:
Religious reasons.
Tell me what happened during this event.
People participated in this event through three main ways:
In antebellum America, a religious revival called the Second Great Awakening resulted in thousands of conversions to evangelical religions. Itinerant preachers, such as Charles Granison Finney, traveled from town to town, lecturing to crowds about eradicating sin in the name of perfectionism. Camp meetings, or large religious gatherings, also gave the devout opportunities to practice their religion and for potential conversions of non-believers. In addition to a religious movement, other reform movements such as temperance, abolition, and women's rights also grew in antebellum America. The temperance movement encouraged people to abstain from consuming alcoholic drinks in order to preserve family order. The abolition movement fought to abolish slavery in the United States. The women's rights movement grew from female abolitionists who realized