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Second Great Awakening

Second Great Awakening. Second Great Awakening. Christian revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. Camp Meetings. Circuit Riders. Traveling preachers. Charles Grandison Finney. Greatest of all the revival preachers No alcohol No slavery

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Second Great Awakening

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  1. Second Great Awakening

  2. Second Great Awakening • Christian revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States

  3. Camp Meetings

  4. Circuit Riders • Traveling preachers

  5. Charles Grandison Finney • Greatest of all the revival preachers • No alcohol • No slavery • Women should pray aloud

  6. Seventh Day Adventists • William Miller • Predicted that Christ would return October 22, 1844 (oops)

  7. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young • Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints/Mormons • Voted as a unit • Had an army • Polygamy • Mormons settled in Utah

  8. Public Education and Horace Mann

  9. Horace Mann • Wanted more and better schools • Longer school terms • Higher pay for teachers • Expanded curriculum • Noah Webster • McGuffey’s Reader

  10. Woman’s Reform Movement • Dorothea Dix – Prison/ Mentally Ill • Wanted to remove the mentally ill from prison and put them in hospitals designed to help

  11. The Temperance Movement • In 1830, Americans drink an average of 5 gallons of liquor a year • Reformers argue that drinking causes domestic violence, public rowdiness and loss of family income • The real problem is Americans have the habit of drinking all day

  12. TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT • American Temperance Society formed at Boston-----1826 • sign pledges, pamphlets, anti-alcohol tract • 10 nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There • “Demon Drink”  adopt 2 major lines of attack: • stressed temperance and individual will to resist

  13. The Temperance Movement • During the next decade approximately 5000 local temperance societies were founded • As the movement gained momentum, annual per capita consumption of alcohol dropped sharply

  14. The Drunkard’s Progress From the first glass to the grave, 1846

  15. The Drunkard’s Progress Step 1: A glass with a friendStep 2: A glass to keep the cold out Step 3: A glass too much Step 4: Drunk and riotousStep 5: The summit attained: Jolly companions  a confirmed drunkardStep 6: Poverty and diseaseStep 7: Forsaken by friendsStep 8: Desperation and crimeStep 9: Death by suicide

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