Ch 12 Flashcards
Southern / frontier meetings that served as a way to hear to word of god while meeting social needs at the same time
camp meetings
Religious revival that became the spark for other reform movements
2nd great awakening
The second great awakening was also know as the….
Benevolent empire
Where was the second great awakening most strong?
Northeast and Midwest
Known as the burned over districts because of the crisscrossing off revivals and the strength of the movement here
Upstate Ny
Converts where usually..
Middle class citizens already active in communities
Most influential evangelist preacher, encouraged other Christians to join abolitionist movement
Charles G Finny
Political ad philosophical movement in the us
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalist essayist that believed each person could create their own relationship with the universe. Wrote “self reliance”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist author of “Walden” and “on the duty of civil disobedience. Martin Luther King junior modeled some of his ideas after this person
Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalists rejected…
Secular authority
Communities formed with the belief that we could make life more perfect in the society we lived in
Utopian communities
Utopian community in New York, believed that the second coming of Christ had already happened
The Oneida community
Who founded the Oneida community?
John Humphrey Noyes
Utopian community in Massachusetts that attempted to create heaven on earth
Brook Farm
Founder of Brook Farm
George Ripley
Founder of New Harmony
Robert Owen
Where was the first penitentiary founded??
Auburn NY
Made it her quest to clean up asylums
Dorothea Dix
Movement attempting to ban alcohol
Temperance movement
Clergyman established this in 1826 to help further the temperance movement
American temperance society
Influential clergyman of the temperance movement
Lyman Beecher
Father of American Education
Horace Man
Most important function of schools, used religion to teach American values
Moral indoctrination
