Chapter 12 Flashcards
the nationwide revival that peaked in the 1850s
Second Great Awakening
the Methodist denomination experienced such dramatic growth that America’s early 19th century has been called
Age of Methodism
evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback, preaching at various points along the way
circuit riders
sent by John Wesley to America from England
began circuit-riding in New England
Francis Asbury
Presbyterian preacher largely responsible for the spread of revival to the frontier of Kentucky
James McGready
McGready pioneered __________
camp meeting revival
a religious service of several days’ length, held outdoors, for a group that was obliged to take shelter on the spot because of the distance from home
camp meeting revival
the most notable camp meeting
Cane Ridge, Kentucky
the great Methodist preacher who came to Christ in a camp meeting
Peter Cartwright
the Second Great Awakening reached its peak in the
late 1850s
the best-known evangelist of the Second-Great Awakening
Charles G. Finney
SECTION 12.2
a former slave who served as a Methodist circuit rider and later became past in Pennsylvania
Richard Allen
Allen founded the
African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
the AME Church was the first
black American denomination
a free man who served as a pastor and started a preparatory school
John Chavis
a slave who traveled throughout the South as a missionary to plantation workers
Caesar McLemore
a slave who ministered to wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War
John Jasper
considered as America’s greatest contribution to the field of music
spiritual
some of the best known organizations for printing and distributing religious materials
Methodist Book Concern
American Bible Society
American tract Society
missionary salesmen
colportuers
sent out colporteurs to travel the country preaching the gospel and selling or giving away tracts and books
American Tract Society
two important supporters of the American Bible Society
John Jay
Dewitt Clinton
one of the society’s greatest Sunday school missionary who was himself converted as a result of the Sunday school movement
Stephen Paxson
the Sunday School society proposed to establish Sunday schools in
every western community that did not have one
three seminaries that were established as a result of the revival that swept the country in the early 19th century
Princeton
Andover
Yale Divinity School
out of this came a desire to establish a foreign missionary society
Haystack Prayer Meeting
T/F: Mills was a foreign missionary
false
helped to found America’s first foreign missions board
Mills
America’s first foreign missions board
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (aka American Board)
one of the first missionaries to be dispatched by the American Board
Adoniram Judson
Judson pioneered the missionary effort in
Burma
Father of American Missions
Adoniram Judson
the first missionaries to Liberia were
Lott Carey
Colin Teague
country founded by the American Colonization Society as a home for freed slaves
Liberia
Father of Western African Missions
Lott Carey
