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U.S. History

U.S. History. Mr. Weber Room 217. Activator. Agenda . Objective. 11.3.2 A nalyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening…. Key Terms:. Religious Revival First Great Awakening Second Great Awakening

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U.S. History

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  1. U.S. History Mr. Weber Room 217

  2. Activator

  3. Agenda

  4. Objective • 11.3.2 Analyzethe great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening…

  5. Key Terms: • Religious Revival • First Great Awakening • Second Great Awakening • Reform Impulse • Antislavery and Abolition • Slave Resistance and Rebellion

  6. Religious Revivals

  7. What was the First Great Awakening? • Religious awakening, rebirth. 1730s and 1740s in North American colonies. • Congregationalists and Presbyterians • Jonathan Edwards: puritan roots but emphasized power of individual and personal religious experience. • Fire and Brimstone. “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” by Edwards.

  8. What was the Second Great Awakening? • A second religious revival that gave a moral impulse to efforts to reform society (1800-1830s). • Led by evangelical preachers Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher. • Famous tent revivals where people would be saved. • Belief in individual moral agency – perfectionist impulse: temperance (no alcohol), bible societies, prison and mental health reform, antislavery.

  9. What was the antislavery movement? • Groups of people working to bring slavery to an end before the Civil War (1860) were called abolitionists. • White abolitionists inspired by the Second Great Awakening (the conversion experience). • African American abolitionists. Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth.

  10. Who were the Black Abolitionists? Fredrick Douglass Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman

  11. What was Slave Resistance and Rebellion? • Everyday forms of resistance. • Poisoning the master and coded stories. • Revolt: • Haitian Revolution (1791) • Gabriel Prosser (1800) • Denmark Vesey (1822) • Nat Turner (1831)

  12. Comprehension check • Write a quick summary (5-7 min) of your notes. Include the following: • Religious revival • 1st Great Awakening • 2nd Great Awakening • Antislavery impulse • Abolitionists • Slave resistance and rebellion

  13. Thinking in time:

  14. Independent Reading • Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States. • “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God.” • Independent reading pp.149-169. • The Mexican/American War • Reading process: beginning, middle, end • Cornell notes.

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