The Second Great Awakening (College Board AP® US History): Flashcards
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Define Second Great Awakening.
The Second Great Awakening (1795-1835) was a Protestant religious revival that emphasized personal salvation and soul-searching.
Which social reforms did the Second Great Awakening inspire?
It inspired calls for abolition, temperance, women's rights, prison reform, and care for people with disabilities and mental illness.
What happened at frontier camp meetings?
Camp meetings were services lasting three to four days, with preaching, prayer, hymns, weddings, and baptisms, attended by tens of thousands.
True or False?
Camp meeting attendees believed salvation was entirely in God's hands.
False.
Attendees believed individuals controlled their own salvation.
How did the New England Congregational phase of the revival differ from the camp meetings?
It was more conservative and believed in not expressing excessive emotion.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
Finney was a former lawyer turned evangelical minister whose direct, emotional preaching led revivals in large cities from 1825 to 1835.
Define "new measures."
The "new measures" were Finney's controversial techniques, such as praying for people by name, letting women pray and take part, and holding services every evening for weeks.
Finney taught theology at College in Ohio.
Finney taught theology at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Define circuit riders.
Circuit riders were Methodist preachers who traveled to bring revival sermons to outlying communities.
Why were circuit riders moved to a new circuit each year?
Moving let them reuse the same sermons and kept them from settling permanently in one area.
Define Burned-Over District.
The Burned-Over District was an area of upstate New York repeatedly swept by religious revivals and new religious groups.
Who was Richard Allen?
Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816 and was its first bishop.
Who was Jarena Lee?
Jarena Lee was the nation's first African American woman preacher and the first woman the AME Church recognized as an evangelist.
What did William Miller preach?
William Miller preached that Christ would soon return, predicting the world would end about 1843.
True or False?
Miller's followers gave up their beliefs after 1843 passed.
False.
They set other dates, and by 1845 still believed Christ would soon arrive but stopped giving a date.
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