...The Second Great Awakening saw established religions like “Baptist and Methodist membership ballooned from a few thousand communicants to more than half a million” (Feller 96). Older and more established religions such as “Presbyterian and Episcopal churches were hard-pressed to hold their ground” (Fellers 96). American were seeking a new spiritual path and freedom from previously oppressive regimes. New religions were formed and grew to meet the expanding country and the diverse needs of its citizens. The Nativist Movement was an anti-Catholic and anti-foreigner movement launched by the growing German and Irish Immigrants (Nativist movement). Catholicism had long been viewed as a threat by many mainstream religions including Protestants. The Nativist became politically active during this era objecting to foreign-born being allowed to hold office. Many clashes took place between Catholic and Nativist including an attack and fire on Ursuline convent school. This escalation between sides boosted the...
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...development of a civilized society in America during the 1700s and 1800s, the role religion played in an everyday person's life was becoming more and more diminished. To combat this, a series of religious revivals were set in motion: The Great Awakenings. These were a series of large, sweeping religious, social, and political changes that sought to use the basis of religion to revive faith in a neglected belief, bring about numerous social reforms, and use political factions to great effect upon society's mentality. Although most view the First Great Awakening as the first' and greatest' religious, social, and political influence to American society, the second Great Awakening can be considered far more influential in its religious, social, and political aspects of influence. Even though the First and Second Great Awakenings focused its attention on other matters of life later on, religion was the theme upon which they were built. The First Great Awakening started among the American colonial Protestants during the early 1700s, mainly due to the weakening of the strict Puritan tradition of religious doctrine, and in part, the religious decline caused by negative publicity from the Salem witch trials and the Enlightenment (www.wikipedia.org). The movement to correct these problems began with Jonathan Edwards, a strictly Puritan, orthodox theologian from Massachusetts who dedicated his time to bringing the people back to the strict Calvinist roots, and to reawaken the fear of God' (www...
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...development of a civilized society in America during the 1700s and 1800s, the role religion played in an everyday person's life was becoming more and more diminished. To combat this, a series of religious revivals were set in motion: The Great Awakenings. These were a series of large, sweeping religious, social, and political changes that sought to use the basis of religion to revive faith in a neglected belief, bring about numerous social reforms, and use political factions to great effect upon society's mentality. Although most view the First Great Awakening as the first' and greatest' religious, social, and political influence to American society, the second Great Awakening can be considered far more influential in its religious, social, and political aspects of influence. Even though the First and Second Great Awakenings focused its attention on other matters of life later on, religion was the theme upon which they were built. The First Great Awakening started among the American colonial Protestants during the early 1700s, mainly due to the weakening of the strict Puritan tradition of religious doctrine, and in part, the religious decline caused by negative publicity from the Salem witch trials and the Enlightenment (www.wikipedia.org). The movement to correct these problems began with Jonathan Edwards, a strictly Puritan, orthodox theologian from Massachusetts who dedicated his time to bringing the people back to the strict Calvinist roots, and to reawaken the fear of God' (www...
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...The Second Great Awakening Liberty University CCOU 201 October 5, 2015 Carol Kirby The Second Great Awakening was quiet a big experience for many. It left a huge impact on religion as we know it. The Western Frontier put together “Camp Meetings.” These were religious services that lasted several days. The Pioneers really seem to enjoy these meeting it gave them something to do and filled their social calendar’s up. From the preaching, to the dancing, to the praise and worship, these meetings left many wanting to build churches of their own. The meeting held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801, was the second meeting and was very huge. The numbers where phenomenal they had anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000 people attended. There was Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist preachers all participating in the revival. This revival then started moving outwards spreading from state to state in the Western area. It went from Kentucky, Tennessee the Ohio. It seemed as though it was a great reward for the Baptist. The Methodist brought forth a group known as the Circuit Riders, they came from the common people. In the 1820’s, Charles Finney, who was a Presbyterian minister, led many revivals. He preached the Gospel in Western New York. He set forth a great planning technique and used his powerful preaching skills. In turn he did many conversions. Finney appealed too many and many converted their lives to Christianity. Finney was such a strong minister, he strength spoke volumes...
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...The Second Great Awakening was an explosion of religious fervor in the 19th century. It was one of the most important social religious and cultural aspects in the United States. During that time, many people had conversion experiences and they want to change their ways to become a more religious individual and give up their ways as sinners. Many people joined churches and particularly women. The Second Awakening lasted around 1970 to 1850. There are many factors that lead to the Second Great Awakening, such as, Market Revolution and Preachers trying to convert people. In addition, there are also consequences of the Second Great Awakening, such as, religious experimentation and Reform movements. One of the causes that lead to the Second Great Awakening was that preachers “circuit riders” would create camp meetings in the frontiers and they would gather thousands of people to listen to them preach. These preachers would attempt to convert the audiences to a more active and particularly evangelical form of Christianity. Two of the famous preachers were Lyman Beecher and Charles Grandison Finney and they both didn’t get along with each other because Finney approved of women preaching in public which was forbidden...
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...The Great Awakening and the Second Awakening were less of a rebellion and more of a mind shift for Christians. These two events caused people to rely on their faith. In previous centuries people relied on their religion. The two Awakenings were similar in their goals but very different in the way they came about and the individual tasks that were accomplished. The first movement, the Great Awakening, was focused on people. In the past preachers would read a sermon to the crowd of believers which often took hours. In the Great Awakening a preacher named George Whitefield got down from his pulpit and into the crowd. He preached from court steps, street corners and tree stumps. He brought the message down to the people. It was often said that he could be heard from a great distance due to his incredible blast of a voice. Benjamin Franklin even tested this. (Franklin) He talked to the people rather than at the people, an act unheard of and not always well accepted. George was determined to help bring God down out of the rafters and into the hands of the believers. Another change in the way we worship came about with Jonathan Edwards. He changed the way the Lord’s Supper was taken. Rather than waiting an entire year to partake of the Lord’s blood and body, he offered it on a regulatory basis. He also offered it to non church members. This was a great coop in a time when religion and regimen were synonymous. The Second Awakening was most responsible...
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...all the movements in the 19th Century the one that took the most effect was the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening started the path towards the United States facing some of the most momentous and controversial issues that they would face in the next 200 years. These issues were racism, women's rights, and the rights of workers. This movement was created by the new middle class of that time. The movement advocated the idea of a more caring people, to have more consideration for human life, and it also promoted religion. In the Second Great Awakening the people believed that they could reach salvation by doing good works and working hard. The belief was that humans could choose to do good or evil and if they choose to do good then there would be no more sin. People had to put them self into action during this movement. It seems everyone was looking for a religion at the time. The Christian word became very popular with women and the African Americans, it gave the idea of salvation. This movement had a huge impact on the United States history. Two religions grew to be the two largest churches in the United States by reforming their traditions, which was the Methodist and the Baptist. It is a thought that this movement helped to bring about some economic stability and security, because the successful new middle class interest in religion came from the economics. In my mind there is not modern movement that can even begin to be the equivalent of the Second Great...
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...The Second Great Awakening was a time of great change for America. It brought about many new ideas and saved a lot of people. It also influenced the way that we see religion even today. These series of revivals occurred in all parts of America, but it was more prominent in the Northeast and Midwest. The Second Great Awakening was a widespread religious revival that swept throughout the British American colonies in the 1790’s all the way through the 1830’s. It was The Great Awakening that helped to save multitudes of people including some slaves and even a few native Americans. The Second Great Awakening started because people had quit attending church regularly. These people didn't think that God cared about when they went to church as long...
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...became hot topics during the Second Great Awakening, a movement that took place in the early 1800s. The Second Great Awakening was headed by religious leaders who sought out changes in American society through uniting the American people (Doc. B). Due to the Second Great Awakening, reform movements were established between 1825 and 1850 to represent the changes American people sought for in the matters of slavery, suffrage, and asylum and prison reform. Nat Turner’s rebellion, occurring in 1831, changed dynamics of slavery in America....
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...system of emancipation. Notably this open distain and opinions came from the new opinions of slavery due to the Great Awakening. Public opinion began to shift towards the abolition movement, hence the boldness shown by William Lloyd garrison and his followers. Pre – Great Awakening these opinions would have been unpopular amongst the public yet now it was such a popular movement that it inspired would-be leading abolitionist leaders such as Theodore Weld, and Robert Purvis to join Garrison in 1833 to form the American Anti-Slavery Society. Significantly, Theodore Weld, being a free man and an evangelical minister would have had no vested interest towards the notion of slavery yet the Great Awakening clearly swayed Weld’s views towards slavery to the side of the...
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...The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement caused by leaders of different denominations in efforts of fighting the spread of ideologies that disproved many concepts the church preached and to attempt to revitalize the church as an establishment. The overlying message of the Second Great Awakening was a basic idea of individuals readmitting God into their daily life, and all forms of skepticism due to the new enlightened ideologies must be rejected because they threaten the faith. This movement caused groups such as Native Americans to have their own kind of revitalization where they let go of the white man’s ways and went back to practicing what their culture and religion teaches. As a result many Natives gave up whiskey, gambling, and other customs they derived from the white man, even though they did not restore their traditions completely they let go of customs that weren’t theirs....
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...1. Describe the Second Great Awakening and why it was important. (Pages 332 -333) The Second Great Awakening was an Evangelist movement in the early nineteenth century. The first notable event in the Second Great Awakening was in 1801 at Cane Ridge, Kentucky. It was an official religious meeting for preachers to get their licenses, baptisms for new converts, and licensing marriages. The non-believers often set up in the outskirts of the event conducting actions of sin. When they had seizures the religious people encouraged it to continue, because they felt it was Christ relieving them of their demons. If they lived they were often converted and had religious zeal. The South had a wider influence; the Second Great Awakening was not as potent in the North. There were few significant Northern preachers. Reverend Timothy Dwight, Nathaniel Taylor, Charles G. Finney, and Lyman Beecher were the most significant preachers of the era. They had the most success in urban areas, but still strove to achieve religious awakening in the cities, New York being a major target. The Second Great Awakening was vital for the religious reformation to take place. The Second Great Awakening produced fruit during the...
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...The Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening had a severe impact on slavery, as well as the way women were viewed in society. During this era, many new religions were formed, causing individuals to live their lives in different ways. Eric Foner states that the Second Great Awakening added a religious basis to the celebration of one’s self-improvement, self-reliance, and self-determination. The Revivals broadened beyond existing churches. The powerpoint mentions some new religions that came about were Mormons, Shakers, Millerites (Adventists), and Churches of Christ. Many revival meetings were held, as well as camp meetings. Foner states that this Great Awakening established the predominance of the Baptist and Methodist churches. According to Foner, Christianity became more central to the American Culture. He also mentions that it spread to all regions of the country and made American Christianity a mass operation. Our powerpoint states that it was a “Spiritual Reform From Within”. It also claims that it consisted of social reforms, as well as redefined the ideal of equality. During camp meetings, Foner mentions how revivalist preachers dropped the belief that man is a sinful creature with a predetermined fate, advocating instead the concept of human free will. He also states that during these gatherings, people of...
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...of this American clergymen started schools that were for preachers and that initiated revivals (Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, & Stoff, 2005). The Great Awakening was a revitalization of religious piety that flowed through each colony like a river, though this was not unanimous. The Great Awakening movement was made up of people who had a democratic ideal; some believed that a valuable quality in a person was spiritual conversion. Perfectionism is what this was known as, it was the want to have a society that was equal and perfect. The position of women and African Americans who were second rate citizens, started to be questioned because of this belief. They were even able to, in some churches, gain the right to speak, preach, and vote on matters of the church (Davidson, et al., 2005). Though some of them were gaining rights within the church during this period not all the churches agreed with this change. Even though some of them gained their rights in the church, they had little to no rights once they left the church. During this time the abolitionist movement was trying to put a halt to slavery due to moral principles. Though little did anyone know that a second great awakening would be coming and bring about more changes to society. The Second Great Awakening started roughly the same way as the Great Awakening did, another attempt to expand religious...
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...religious revival and the progressive reformation in the Second Great Awakening had been a paramount influential movement through change and increased church attendance in American history from 1790 to 1839. Specifically in Charles Finney’s “Sermons on Various Subjects”, sinners create their own “wicked” hearts. This notion can have many different meanings but can be inferred that those who sin make those choices by themselves. Their preference of choosing to sin is their own voluntary act, and nobody else’s. “They make self-gratification the rule to which they conform all their conduct. When they come into being, the first principle that we discover in their conduct is their determination to gratify themselves. It soon comes to pass that any effort to thwart them in the gratification of their appetites, is met...
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