Ch. 8 Flashcards
Began in the 1790s- a religious activism
Second Great Awakening
A religious activism
evangelism
most famous preacher of the second great awakening era
Charles Gandison Finney
Insisted that people could improve themselves and society
Individual responsibility
outdoor camps that lasted 4-5 days and drew upwards of 20000 people
revivals
from philly and created the bethel african church
duscussed the possibility of a settlement in canada for free blacks and fugitive slaves
Richard ALlen
became the african methodist episcpoal church
became center for political, cultural, and social exchange
Ame
a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life
celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination
Trancendentalism
Nature
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no pat and leave a trail”
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes”
Raphl Waldo emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Civil Disobedience
2 Utopian communities
New Harmony, Indiana
Brook famr
shaker town
more than 100 societies were founded by 1800
advocating resettling African Americans in Africa
Resettlement
to outlaw slavery
abolition
freeing slaves with no payment to the slaveholders
Emancipation
worked from dawn to dusk
platantion slavery