2nd Great Awakening: 1820-1859 People: Rev. Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)‚ whose career took off after his dynamic evangelical revivals in the late 1820s in New York’s upstate "Burned-Over District." Finney’s brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold. Barton W. Stone - an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister‚ then was expelled from the church after
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The Second Great Awakening was the second revolution religious movement of revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began in 1790 and grew rapidly‚ increasing the involvement of people in different religions‚ mainly the Baptist and Methodist churches‚ and creating new denominations‚ such as the Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists. Many religious leaders of the congregations preached about their religions to people all over the country‚ converting them to their religion
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There was evidence of progress in the role of white middle class women‚ between 1815 and 1860‚ due to the commercial economy and the religious revival brought on by the antebellum market revolution and Second Great Awakening. For these white women‚ the positive affects can be seen in their dominance within their families‚ their influential movements for societal reform‚ and their independence gained form an industrial workplace while the roles of female black slaves were neither improved nor affected
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“IN WHAT WAYS DID THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING INFLUENCE AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE?” In the thirty year span between 1830 and 1860‚ the Second Great Awakening did much to change the modern American mind by sparking the abolitionist movement‚ empowering women (in their domestic sphere) and forming the cult of domesticity‚ partially fixing the corrupt government through the temperance movement‚ and in the creation of many utopian societies by radical religious populations. Puritanism was kicked
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Other activists began to create democratic reforms as well‚ fighting to reinforce the ideals the nation so actively prides itself in. Many however‚ did not take part in these reforms‚ insisting that the old ways were the best ways. The Second Great Awakening was the push that brought on these reform movements. Beginning in New England‚ in the late 1790s‚ and later spreading
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Tristan C Brown Period 3 APUSH The Greatest Awakening Starting in the early 1700’s‚ the role of religion in the average American’s life had diminished considerably. As a result‚ many religious customs and beliefs were re-introduced. In the 1720’s‚ The First Great Awakening‚ as it became known‚ was a radical change in American religious beliefs and customs‚ as well as a change in political and social beliefs. As time passed and the United States was formed‚ these changes began to fade away
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The Great Awakening traces back to seventeenth century England‚ where political climate led to a decrease in spirituality. The Puritans had grown in number ever since Charles the Second assumed the throne‚ who had also agreed to join the French to oppose Holland and bring Catholicism back to England. While James the Second was the next king‚ much of the Anglican clergy were accommodating to the new monarchs‚ but they started to gravitate away from the extremes. This gave England a period of superiority
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Practice: Document Based Questions The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment both produced writers and thinkers who argued for the implementation of a republican government. Writers such as Locke‚ Montesquieu‚ Edwards and Whitefield‚ all had a role in promoting republican values‚ which in turn influenced the establishment of a republican government. John Locke‚ an English philosopher was a major part of the growth of the rebublican view during the Enlightenment era.1 Locke was a brilliant teacher
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The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement in the mid 1800 (19th century); the movement revealed romanticism which mainly included enthusiasm‚ appeal to the super-natural (extraterrestrial)‚ and emotion; it rejected the skeptical of enlightenment. The theory of the movement began around the 1790s but it gained its popularity around the 1800s‚ by the 1850s the movement was at its peak (climax). The awakening arose mainly in the Baptist and Methodist congregations due to the preachers
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called Why some Americans Manifest A sort of Fanatical Spiritualism‚ which is about the Second Great Awakening. Toequerville said in his observation that he thought it was strange that Americans would travel such great distances to hear a sermon that would last for days at a time. People would do this because they wanted to gain eternal life. One preacher who was important to The Second Great Awakening was Charles Finny. He was a preacher who was raised in New York‚ and he became a success in Oneida
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