protect the traditional family and their values. The First Great Awakening was a wave of revivals that started in Massachusetts and it eventually spread throughout the colonies, which was led by the Evangelical pastors in the 1730’s and 40’s. The movement emphasized vital religious faith and their personal choices. It was characterized by large meetings at which emotional sermons were given by itinerant preachers. The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that happened in the 1820’s and 30’s
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1860, the position of women in the United States changed drastically. They, of course, did not receive voting rights until the 19th amendment in 1920. This was about a century after they began their mighty fight for their rights. The “Second Great Awakening” opened many distinct doors for different people, and some of those were women. Women were seen as much more superior than men because they taught the people in their household about religion and educated them, they also began working in mills
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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
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The Great Awakening created the separation of church and state in America like the old lights and the new lights, what state it started in, and it’s competitiveness that it has started between churches which made a big movement among the american people. First of all, The Great Awakening split the church and state in America because on (page 91) it states, ”Orthodox clergymen, known as “old lights,” were deeply skeptical of the emotionalism and the theatrical antics of the revivalists. “New light”
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John Newton An additional key figure of the Great European and American Awakening was John Newton, who will forever be remembered for his memorable hymn “Amazing Grace.” “Amazing Grace” is beloved well into the 21st century by Christians and non-Christians alike, and could be considered to be one of the most widely-known and widely-sung hymns of all time. Newton was a slave-trader during this time more than one hundred years before the Civil War and the eventual emancipation of slaves in the United
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slavery played a role in the war that many did not imagine. In mid-1730s, the Great Awakening began in New England. This brought the gospel to all that would listen. It grabbed the interest of the slaves. They heard a message of salvation and freedom. The SON OF GOD, shall make you free, and you shall be free (White, 118). This message provided a new hope and assurance that slavery was not forever. The Great Awakening led to the education of many black people. This was very important for them, due
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controlled by the monarchy (king or queen) and the aristocracy (elite social class) in England. 2. What was the First ( Great Awakening? Why was it significant ? How did it differ for people of different social and legal standing ? First Great Awakening was a religious movement among American colonial Protestants in the 1730s and 1740s. colonies. The Great Awakening may also be interpreted as the last major expression of the religious ideals on which the New England colonies were founded.
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The Primary Sources “Sermons on Various Subjects”, “A Memorial of William Lloyd Garrison from the City of Boston”, and “Walden” reveal that mutual 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
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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
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She continued to be an artist and express herself as Mademoiselle Reisz does. Since her “awakening” it began to isolate her from other more and more, it also led her to a state of solitude. Her awakening also led her to good elements at first, yet she doesn't genuinely know what she wanted to do throughout her awakening. Every time something happened, she went along with it even though she had no intention of it happening, such as with Alcee Arobin where
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