and moral righteousness. William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe published especially influential abolitionist literature and rejected the less-radical and less-just idea of gradualism. Northern preachers took up the call‚ and began condemning slavery from the pulpit. Southern preachers had a very different interpretation on this issue‚ but their voices were quickly drowned out in the North. The temperance movement also benefitted from the Second Great Awakening. Many of the same aspects
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1. The Enlightenment-A cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in the late 17th and 18th century. 2. Jonathan Edwards-A Christian preacher and theologian most acknowledged to be Americas most important Philosophical theologian. 3. George Whitefield-An English Anglican preacher who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain. 4. The Great Awakening-Used to refer to several periods of religious revival in American religious history. 5. “Old Lights”-If a denomination is changing and some refuse
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Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen is a former Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of three civil rights activists‚ who wouldn’t be convicted for his crimes until 40 year after the murders took place. Edgar was the conductor of many all white supreme terrorism acts whose orders were carried out by the Klu Klux Klan. During the 1950’s and 1960’s is when the Civil Rights movement took place‚ while the African Americans were fighting for their lives the klan was fighting to stop them
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Elijah of Buxton: Developing into a Man “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear‚ but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid‚ but he who conquers that fear” (Nelson Mandela). These words perfectly describe Elijah Freeman’s character development in the novel Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis‚ as Elijah takes part in extreme acts of courage to free a baby from slavery. As a free baby‚ Elijah did not experience slavery and oftentimes he does not understand
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In John Wesley’s fourth sermon on the Sermon of the Mount‚ he makes the point that Christianity is a social religion. Christianity is not practiced in a vacuum. As Christians‚ he says‚ we gather as a community‚ holding one another accountable to the faith and being with one another as we grow in relationship with God. Beyond that‚ as a social religion‚ Christianity calls us to have an impact on our communities‚ to care about others‚ and to be involved in making social changes for the betterment
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where there was greater commotion. In other words‚ people were joining the Awakening simply because of the fervor of having their body overcome with the spirit‚ as opposed to joining because of their love for God. Jonathan Edwards was a great man‚ preacher‚ and man of God‚ who grabbed the attention of the people of New England through his sermons and leadership. It is unlikely that there ever will be another person who will have such an effect on the religion of the United States as
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They have influential preachers‚ sermons‚ and singing. Supernatural things occur in services as well as people’s passion for God is fired. The camp meetings greatly influenced our churches in this literal way‚ and also in the way that without these camp meetings‚ revival wouldn’t
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In the novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck‚ the protagonist‚ Tom Joad‚ takes on challenges for himself‚ and for the greater good of all people‚ thereby‚ in essence‚ becoming a hero. Steinbeck‚ during the mid-1930s‚ witnessed people living in horrendous conditions of extreme poverty due to the Great Depression and the agricultural disaster known as the Dust Bowl. He noticed that these people received no aid whatsoever from neither the state of California nor the federal government. The rage
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passionate sermons that it brought many peoples attention (Great Awakening).George Whitefield‚ a histronic man with a very loud voice. His sermons were heard by Benjamin Franklin‚ who was a worldy man‚ but his opinion was changed from this preacher. Another principle leader in the south
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In “The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition‚” W. J. Rorabaugh effectively argues that the Antebellum Temperance Reform was motivated primarily by religious moralism. Rorabaugh claims that the temperance societies developed by evangelical Christian ministers served as socializing institutions which significantly helped ease social tensions and anxieties that contributed to alcohol consumption. Rorabaugh is a professor of history at the University of Washington and has published various research
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