test 10/12 Flashcards
Charles Grandison Finney
A preacher known for having revivals and yelling at people. Like yelling and yelling a lot. He was the most famous preacher of his era. He converted at the age of 29 to christianity. He was reforming for women’s rights, abolition, and school reform. A key part of this era.
Revival
An emotional meeting designed to awaken religious faith through impassion and prayer. Lasted five days they read the bible and examined their souls.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Left his ministry to become a Transcendentalist. His wife of tuberculosis. He was a protistan minister.
Civil disobedience
Was when you simply disobeyed the laws you did not believe in. They did this to stray away from a violent protest and did this in peace. Henry David thoreau.
Utopian communities
Some of the optimism of religious and social reform also inspired the establishment of these utopian societies which were perfect places to live. More than 90 of these communities were made in America.
Shaker
They did not believe in marrying or having babies
Horace Mann
He was the father of eduction. He established curriculum and graded schools. From MA
Dorthea Dix
She believed reforming prisons and asylums. She was inspired by personal experience. In 1843 she sent a report of her findings to the Massachusetts legislature, who in turn passed legislation to improve the conditions of the mentally ill. By 1880 more than 100 mental institutes were being operated in the united states.
Transcendentalism
Physiological and literally movement that emphasized living a simple a life. In all of these people lives and writing they celebrated the truth found in nature, personal emotion and imagination.
Second Great Awakening
This swept the United States after 1790. Finney was a part of this awakening. The preachers that were a part of this awakening rejected the 18th century belief that God predetermined salvation one’s salvation or damnation. They emphazised individule responsibility for slavation
