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Religion&

Reform

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The Second Great AwakeningLate 1700’s to early 1800’s

“Spiritual Reform From Within”

[Religious Revivalism]Social Reforms & Redefining the

Ideal of Equality

Temperance

Asylum &Penal

Reform

Education

Women’s Rights

Abolitionism

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The Second Great Awakening

Late 1700’s to early 1800’s

• This movement was a break from Calvinism (God communicates through his word only, NOT through what people think they know)

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The Second Great Awakening

Late 1700’s to early 1800’s

• In the Great Awakening people determined their own salvation (repent to be forgiven of sin)

• There was extreme faith in what an individual can do

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Revivalism

• Focused on emotional preaching and instant conversion

• Revivals – an awakening

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• Dominant preacher – • Charles G. Finney

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Second Great AwakeningRevival Meeting

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The ranges of tents, the fires, reflecting light…; the candles and lamps illuminating the encampment; hundreds moving to and fro…;the preaching, praying, singing, and shouting,… like the sound of many waters, was enough to swallow up all the powers of contemplation.

Charles G. Finney

(1792 – 1895)

“soul-shaking”

conversionR1-2

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Movement of Revivals

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The “Burned-Over” District in Upstate New York

refers to the western and central regions of New York in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place.[1]

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UnitariansAppealed to reason and conscience NOT emotion

Believed religious conversion was a gradual process not immediate

Most well known leader Ellery Channing

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A.M.E.ChurchAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church

• African Americans formed their own churches in the North and supported the anti-slavery cause (abolition)

• The black church becomes the #1 institution in the lives of free blacks

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• Richard Allen, preacher and founder

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• tran·scend• verb• be or go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract,

typically a conceptual field or division).• "this was an issue transcending party politics"

• surpass (a person or an achievement).

• synonyms:surpass, exceed, beat, cap, tower above, outdo, outclass, outstrip, leave behind, outshine, eclipse, overshadow, throw into the shade, upstage, top

• "his exploits far transcended those of his predecessors"

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Transcendentalisme A literary and philosophical

movemente Value nature and what it can

teach youe Stressed having a Personal

relationship with God, individuality and personal improvement

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• “Transcend” the limits of intellect and allow the emotions, the SOUL, to create an original relationship with the Universe.

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Transcendentalist Intellectuals/Writers

Concord, MA

Ralph WaldoEmerson

Henry DavidThoreau

Nature(1832) Walden

(1854)Resistance to

Civil Disobedience

(1849)

Self-Reliance (1841)

“The American Scholar”

(1837) R3-1/3/4/5

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The Transcendentalist Agenda Give freedom to the slave.

Give well-being to the poor and the miserable.

Give learning to the ignorant.

Give health to the sick.

Give peace and justice to society.

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Utopian Communities

• Groups trying to create a “utopian”(perfect) place

• No utopian communities were very successful – members could not agree on operating methods or philosophies

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Utopian Communities

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Brook FarmWest Roxbury, MA

George Ripley (1802-1880)

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• Out of Religious Reform grew

• Social Reform Movements

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Public Educatione MA always on the forefront of public

educational reform * 1st state to establish tax support for

local public schools.e By 1860 every state offered free public education to whites. * US had one of the highest literacy rates.

eSchools began to require mandatory attendance, a standard curriculum, tax support for public schools, and teacher training.

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“Father of American Education”

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

e children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officialse children should be “molded” into a state of perfection

e discouraged corporal punishmente established state teacher- training programs

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The McGuffey Eclectic Readers

e Used religious parables to teach “American values.”e Teach middle class morality and respect for order.e Teach “3 Rs” + “Protestant ethic” (frugality, hard work, sobriety) R3-8

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Prison and Asylum Reform

Dorothea Dix(1802-1887)

1821 first penitentiary foundedin Auburn, NY

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Dorothea Dix Asylum - 1849

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• Dix raised awareness of cruel treatment of the mentally ill

• She helped establish 9 hospitals in the south

• Including one here in Raleigh opened in 1856; closed in 2012

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Women’s Movement• Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and • Lucretia Mott

• Women wanted to move away from the cult of domesticity

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• A meeting was held in Seneca Falls NY in 1848 (called the Seneca Falls Convention) to discuss women’s access to rights such as voting, education, health care

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Abolitionist Movement

• A variety of approaches.

• Some favor non-violence – William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass

• others had no problem with violence – Nat Turner, David Walker

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William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879)

e Immediate emancipation with NO compensation.

e Slavery was a moral, notan economic issue.

e Favored non-violent movement

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The Liberator

Anti-slavery NewspaperWritten by Garrison

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David Walker(1785-1830)

A free black from North Carolina

Encouraged blacks to Fight and take their freedom by force rather than wait to be set free by whites.

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Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

Douglass escaped to freedom in NY from Maryland and became a lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society

He was later sponsored by W.L. Garrison

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• 1847 he began publishing “The North Star” – a newspaper he wrote named after the star that guided runaway slaves.

• He also favored non-violence

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Nat Turner- Led a rebellion of 50 followers

in 1831 in Virginia

- Killed 70 white people

- Turner was captured and hanged

- The rebellion made people in the south fight even harder to keep slavery

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Slave Code restrictions…

• Neither free nor enslaved blacks could preach about God

• Took away right to vote

• Could not own guns, purchase alcohol, assemble in public, testify in court

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• Could not own private property

• Learn to read or write

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• Arguments to support slavery…

• Bible• Slaves benefitted from slavery• “happy slave”

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• What did Congress do?

• Gag rule – not allowed to discuss petititons to end slavery


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