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    Reform movements like the Second Great Awakening‚ the temperance movement‚ abolitionist’s movement‚ and women’s rights movement started for many reasons. Firstly‚ the Second Great Awakening was created because of religious purposes and even helped form the Methodists and Baptist denominations. This movement also resulted in a large following from abolitionist‚ women‚ and individuals in support of the temperance movement. The temperance movement was created in order to control the amount of alcohol

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    The Great Awakening was one of the most influential impacts on the United States’ religious history. The Great Awakening helped re-establish a basic moral foundation for colonists‚ it unified colonists with each other‚ & it revived many American’s passion for religion. Jonathon Edward’s preaching during 1741‚ vividly described the horrors of hell to colonists. Jonathon’s exact preaching was “You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince‚ and yet it is nothing

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    History – The First and Second Great Awakenings had several things in common. They were both religious revival movements that was cause by a desire for liberalism in religion. They both appealed to human emotions to create change‚ played roles in expanding women membership in the church‚ developing new religious denominations‚ and addressing social issue such as racism and slavery. The end of World War II also put an end the era of colonialism. There were many new nations popping up that wanted to

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    Dow helped pass the first prohibition law in 1846; the Maine Law. By 1860‚ Horace Mann of Massachusetts help to make sure that every state has compulsory childhood education. Women’s rights became increasingly popular during the Second Great Awakening. It had its roots in the abolition movement. Document C depicts a women in chains‚ this is more than likely how women of that era felt about their position in government or anywhere else for that matter. Many women were involved in this reform

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    The English colonies in North America were actually settled by immigrants from many different European countries which resulted in a very cosmopolitan and multicultural society rich in diversities of language and religion.  Because of this nascent colonial diversity the United States of America emerged as a new type of nation‚ one that guaranteed in written constitutional form the rights of minorities against the possible tyranny of the majority. However‚ while the nation could use “E

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    Many historians would define “The First Great Awakening” as the regeneration of religion and religious piety that rose through the colonies of America in the 1700s. The revitalization was much bigger then just religion it could be considered a broad movement. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean an evangelical upsurge was taking place. In protestant cultures during the middle decades of the eighteenth century a new faith began to grow that would encounter the age of enlightenment it confirmed

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    The Great Awakening impacted the people in the 13 American colonies. Settlers were encouraged to disregard sectarian differences which brought religious‚ political‚ and cultural unity among the colonies. However‚ some churches divided into factions based on class ranks; for instance‚ “Old Sides” among Presbyterians and “Old Lights” among Congregationalist. Revivalism later resounded as “New Sides” and “Old Lights”. This event undermined traditional views of authority which contributed to the development

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    Often overlooked in the story of Colonial Enlightenment and The Great Awakening is the unequivocally decisive role that it played in providing an encouragement to pursue a just and harmonious way of existence in life‚ such a way that would bring Republicanism to the forefront of Colonial Political debate. Whitefield speaks of the utter necessity to pursue a cause that you know to be righteous no matter the cost. When Whitefield states “and that their professing themselves to be his followers‚ would

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    Impact of the Second Great Awakening in Modern-Day Society The Second Great Awakening laid the foundations of the development of present-day religious beliefs and establishments‚ moral views‚ and democratic ideals in the United States. Beginning back in late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century‚1 this Protestant awakening sought to reach out the un-churched and bring people to a much more personal and vivid experience of Christianity. Starting on the Southern

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    Awakenings” The movie “Awakenings” is based on a factual memoir also titled “Awakenings” written by Oliver Sacks‚ MD. The movie tells the story of a neurologist‚ Dr. Sayer hired by a hospital for the chronically ill‚ whom is caring for a group of survivors of an endemic of encephalitis lethargica that broke out in the twenties. These patients have all progressively reduced to a catatonic or vegetative-Parkinsonian state and have been in this semi-conscious state for decades. Dr. Sayer uses

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