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    Matthias passed judgment on all who would cross his path especially women. The Kingdom of Matthias describes the life of an American man’s religious revivalism‚ describes a story of sex‚ society and religion .The core theme was the impact of the Second Great Awakening concerning on the lives of the American people and society. The lives of men and women of the Second Great Awakening were shaped by their beliefs in God and the belief that the Truth would set them free from all the sins that they have committed

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    David Park 2/26/13 In history events have occurred which changed the way a nation was operated. A great example of a situation like this would be the U.S. between 1820 and 1840 where many events had great effect on the way the nation was steered back in those days. The nation was still very young at the time and had yet to establish a great‚ equal‚ and fair operation of the nation but certain events led to greater democracy and fairness in the nation. The events would include

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    THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT Objectives Introduction: The material basis of the American Enlightenment The Enlightenment in America. Slavery and the Enlightenment. The American Woman of the Eighteenth Century Let Us Sum Up Questions Suggested Readings 5.0 OBJECTIVES The aim of this Unit is to take stock of the contexts of American literature produced between the period of the early European colonial settlements in America and the formation of a federal association of these colonies in the

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    The American society started to change tremendously in 1815.It was due to very important events ‚the revolution of industry and the Second Great Awakening.The technology advanced significantly with new inventions like the telegraph‚ sewing machine‚ and assembly line.The agriculture was booming with the mechanical thresher‚ which was a tractor with a steam engine‚ and the reaper was used to harvest wheat. The Second Great Awakening started a whole new religious and Evangelicals ideas all across

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    Between the 1720’s and the 1760’s rise of the Enlightenment in America which mostly appealed to the more educated men and women from wealthier upper class of society like artiest and planter families which ever quite wealthy in that time period. Deism was on the rise being that it was based off the ideal that there is reason for everything that happens in the world. This was a huge controversy at that time because most religious afflictions’ only believed in God and that the higher power controls

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    t the American Revolution  because the French saw to imitate the newly and successfully implemented ideals of the  enlightenment‚ as well as the American ideals themselves‚ and finally the debt that the  American Revolution brought on France.   ● The French Were attempting to imitate our new freedom‚  ● The Americans were the first to implement the ideals of the Enlightenment  ● They attempted to implement the American ideals of freedom and liberty.  ● The American Revolution brought great debt on France 

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    Contrastingly‚ the mid-Atlantic colonies were made up of a variety of different religious groups‚ including Lutherans‚ Catholics‚ Jews‚ Congregationalists‚ and Quakers in Pennsylvania. During the Great Awakening of the 1730s‚ the influence of older forms of Protestantism‚ especially Calvinism‚ increased dramatically throughout both regions. Until 1740‚ religion mainly united the New England region‚ while it mostly divided the mid-Atlantic region until the first Great Awakening. New England was founded

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    mid-eighteenth century‚ a tremendous wave of religious revival swept through the British colonies in North America. Coined “The Great Awakening”‚ it is thought to be the first mass social movement in American history. Although the movement was most prominent in the middle and southern colonies‚ it would continue on to have an immense impact on the entirety of the colonies. Much like the Enlightenment‚ the Great Awakening encouraged individual thought and the use of new ideas to question the authority‚ humanity

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    The Second Great Awakening was an enormous religious revival that swept the  American nation in the beginning of the 19th century. A revival is defined by Webster’s  Dictionary as “the growth of something or an increase in the activity of something after a long  period of no growth or activity.” This revival caused an unfathomable amount of permanent  change to the United States. The Second Great Awakening converted millions of Americans‚  resulted in several new denominations of faith‚ changed the the way the American people 

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    Kirtland‚ the chapter fundamentally focuses on the religious terrain that Matthias endured after release from prison. While his attempt to endear himself to the Mormon Prophet Smith and the Mormon Church failed‚ he played a role in the Second Great Awakening. During the period‚ the northern opinion significantly influenced religious change movement countrywide. In resisting this evangelical reformism‚ Smith and Matthias separately attacked the domineering views advanced by the Finneyite evangelicalism

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