Test Five Flashcards
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Backus (North)
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- New Light Congregationalist who became Baptist
- Responded to the 1st attempt of the Massachusetts Constitution with Government and Liberty because it did not address religious liberty
- Replied to the 2nd attempt with An Appeal to the People arguing that civil magistrate should not have authority in religious matters
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Leland (South)
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- Primary Baptist spokesman in the South for religious liberty
- Moderate Calvinist
- Wrote The Rights of Conscience Inalienable arguing against establishment of religion and government restrictions on religion
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Loyalists
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Anglican Clergy
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Patriots
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-Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Jews, Anglican Laity
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Pacifists
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-Mennonites, Moravians, Quakers
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Congregationalist Churches
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- Established Congregationalist: MA, CT, NH
- Religious tax resistance and confiscation of property
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Anglican Churches
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- Established Anglican: VA, SC, NC, GA, MD, NY
- Arrests and imprisonments for unlicensed preaching
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James McGready
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- Influenced by college revivals; carried the spirit of revival to Kentucky
- 1800, organized first camp meeting at Red River
- Revival spread in Kentucky and reached zenith under Barton Stone
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Camp Meetings
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- Attractive to isolated, transient society
- Several sermons and spontaneous exhortations delivered simultaneously
- Emotional and ecstatic “exercises”
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Timothy Dwight
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- President of Yale, grandson of Jonathan Edwards
- In 1802, preached against free-thinking and for godliness in chapel
- Sparked a revival at Yale and other schools
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Lyman Beecher
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- Revivalist produced by the Awakening in the East
- Organizer and promoter
- Presbyterian pastor in Ohio
- Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher
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Nathaniel Taylor
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- Revivalist produced by the Awakening in the East
- Theologian
- Congregationalist professor at Yale
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Charles Finney
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- Father of Modern Revivalism
- —Criticized for using “methods” for revival
- —“Revival is the right use of correct methods”
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New Measures
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- Door-to-door visitation
- Used women to testify, pray, and lead in services
- Direct appeal (invitations)
- Used “anxious bench” where those under conviction sat during the drama of conversion
- “Protracted meetings”: camp meetings brought to town and conducted indoors
- Established training institutes for new converts
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Voluntary Societies
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- Gathering of individuals, who did not wait for official ecclesiastical organization or endorsement, to focus quick, concerted action and to recruit from a broad base in order to accomplish a single purpose (such as missionary or educational enterprise)
- Members of Protestant denominations became more aware of their similarities and common purposes
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Results of Second Great Awakening
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- Led to schisms between “New School” and “Old School” Presbyterians
- Revivals became main evangelistic tool
- Greater churched population
- Greater missionary activity, home and foreign
- Greater interest in social issues, such as slavery, temperance, and women’s suffrage