Aim #27: What was the Second Great Awakening?Do now! PUT ANSWERS ON SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rows 1 and 2 (closest to door): read “Camp Meetings” and answer questions

Rows 3 and 4: read “Reasons for the Second Great Awakening”

Rows 5 and 6: read “Outcomes

of the Great Awakening”

(I) Characteristicsa. Massive religious meetings known as revival or “camp meetings” (25,000 at some gatherings)b. Mostly in the rural areas of New England, Middle States, and Western areas of the U.S.c. Energetic; based on revelation and faith conversiond. Very democratic in nature 1. Majority were women 2. slaves attended

3. Working classe. Spread by itinerant preachers (travel from place to place)f. Good works and helping solve societies problems path to salvation

The Intensity of SGA

1831Camp Meetings

Abolitionist Meetings

(II) Second Great Awakening: Comparison(MAKE A T-CHART)

• First Great Awakening • Second Great Awakening

•God Granted Salvation •Individuals controlled salvation•Sinful nature of humans •Innate goodness of human•Incapacity to change behavior •Capacity to change behavior

• Stressed personal accountability•Spread and expanded religion

•“Fire and Brimstone”

Cane Ridge Revival (1801)

KentuckyWeek long; 25, 000 attendees

By comparison: the most populous city in Kentucky:Lexington: 1,795

(III) Charles G. Finney a. Most prominent and dynamic preacher of the SGA b. Began preaching in upstate NY in “burned out”

district c. believed that people could choose their salvation

by doing good works 1. Believed in freewill rather than predestination c. Controversial because:

1. Abolitionist2. public praying of women in mixed-sex audiences 3. praying for people by name 4. offered immediate church membership for converts.

IV. Outcomesa. Inspired a wave of social activism in areas such as:1. Abolitionists2. Temperance3. Reform of prisons4. Care for the mentally ill

b. Encourages the emergence of new denominations (Methodists, Baptists, Mormons, 7th Day Adventists, Dentists (just seeing if you are paying attention)

1816 -> American Bible Society Founded

Religious Groups Beliefs

Unitarians

Believe Jesus was a great teacher not the Son of God

God is a unity, not a trinity

UniversalistsUniversal salvation

Reject the idea of hell

Mormons

Followers of Joseph SmithBelieve God is coming and theyNeed to build a kingdom on Earthto receive him

Shakers

Believe in communal life

Because they did not marry or Have children, their church couldGrow only through converts

Reform

Abolitionism

Reform

Temperance

Reform

Treatment of Mentally Ill

Dorothea Dix

Reform

Prisons

Reform

Utopian Experiments

Reform

Education

Reform

Status of Women