Transcript A Religious Awakening

A RELIGIOUS AWAKENING
8.1
OBJECTIVES
Describe the Second Great Awakening
 Explain why some religious groups suffered from
discrimination in the mid-1800s.
 Trace the emergence of the utopian and
Transcendentalist movements.
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KEY PARTS
The Second Great Awakening Changes America
 Non-Protestants Suffer Discrimination
 Utopias and Transcendentalism
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INTRODUCTION
Read section 8.1
 Fill in the chart on page 266, two bullet points
per square.
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THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING
A group of evangelical preachers felt that
America was becoming immoral and decided to
begin a revival.
 The revival started in Kentucky then moved
north and south.
 This was considered evangelical style of worship,
which is designed to elicit strong emotions to
attract converts.
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CONT.
These revivals would often last up to a week; one
of the most influential revivalists was attorney
Charles Grandison Finney.
 Many of the revivalist sermons featured the idea
that the United States was leading the world into
the millennium or the thousand years of glory
following the Second Coming of Jesus. (called
millennialism)- readying the society by perfecting
it through reform.
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AFRICAN AMERICANS EMBRACE THE
SPIRIT
African Americans were often invited to these
revivals.
 Some even established their own separate
churches that later became known as African
American Methodist Episcopal (AME)
 Religion for slaves caused several uprisings, with
slaves saying that they were called by God to
lead enslaved people out of bondage.
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NON- PROTESTANTS SUFFER
DISCRIMINATION
The Mormon's faced discrimination due to how
they practiced their faith in small groups
secluded from people and practiced ideals that
protestants didn’t agree with.
 They also bought land together in groups which
gave them power.
 Also, they voted in groups to help them gain more
political power.
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CONT.
Catholics were discriminated against because of
the same reasons they have been since the
beginning of the United States.
 Protestants felt as though the Roman Catholic’s
ideals were not compatible with the ideals of
democracy.
 Also they felt that the Roman Catholic Church
would choose loyalty to the Pope rather than the
United States.
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UTOPIAS AND TRANSCENDENTALISM
During the 1800s dozens of groups of Americans
sought to improve their lives in a unique way.
 They chose to distance themselves from society
by setting up communities based on unusual
ways of sharing property, labor, and family life.
 These were considered Utopian communities
because they tried to be perfect communities.
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CONT.
Two well- known utopian communities were New
Harmony, Indiana, and Brook Farm,
Massachusetts.
 Robert Owen, a British social reformer sought to
have people from different backgrounds work
together in a cooperative society at New
Harmony.
 Brook Farm lasted six years and New Harmony
lasted just two years.
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THE SHAKERS SUCCEED
The United Society of Believers in Christ’s
Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, were
another group that set up a chain of separate
communal living societies.
 They set up villages in New Hampshire, New
York, Ohio, and Illinois.
 Men and women had separate housing and did
not marry or have children.
 Their economy flourished because of their high
quality crafts and produce. (Remnants of their
settlements still exist today)
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TRANSCENDENTALISTS
In New England a group known as the
Transcendentalists developed a new way to look
at humanity, nature, God, and the relationship
among them.
 This group believed they could transcend beyond
their senses to learn about the world.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson (former Unitarian
minister) was the leading Transcendentalist.
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