(Lecture 8) Religious Revivals and Cultural Change

Question 1

What was the Battle of Tippecanoe? When?

Answer 1

1811.
William Henry Harrison led a mission to destroy the power of an intertribal alliance promoted by Tecumseh and brother

Question 2

Who was Charles G. Finney?

Answer 2

Father of American revivalism.

Question 3

What did Black Hoof do?

Answer 3

Counselled the Shawnee to adapt to the white men’s ways and seek legal titles to their Ohio lands

Question 4

What was the Prophet called?

Answer 4

Tenskwatawa

Question 5

What was the Prophet’s message?

Answer 5

Renounce whiskey.
Renounce white goods and return bows and arrows (keep guns).
Eat traditional foods- no bread.
Don’t dress like the white man.
No private property or violence against other tribes.
Cease contact with whites.

Question 6

What was the ‘Second Great Awakening’?

Answer 6

Protestant religious revival

Question 7

What are some quotes relating to Finney?

Answer 7

“A retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause”.

“The complete reformation of the whole world”.

“If the church would do her duty… the millennium may come in this country in three years”.

Question 8

How were Tecumseh and the Prophet related?

Answer 8

brothers