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Chapter 15

Learning Objectives:

1. The 2nd Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States, which expressed Arminian theology by which every person could be saved through revivals. Workers went from being on the natural factory time measured by a mechanical clock. Quakers were anti-slavery. Most Christian reformers in the 19th century tended to be prohibitionists and social reformers. At the Seneca Falls Convention, influential women stepped up for women’s rights, which was one of the results of the 2nd Great Awakening.

2. Second Great Awakening 1790-1840 a period of great religious revival was the cause of the important reform movements of the time. The Second Great Awakening released a torrent of religious fervor, combining a belief in moral self-improvement and a wish to expand democracy by means of evangelicalism. From the 1830s to 1850s, the nation experiences a burst of reform activity. Various movements set out to democratize the nation further by combating what they see as institutions and ideas that thwart the expression of democratic values and principles.

8. Transcendentalism, a philosophical and literary movement, shapes the cultural outlook of the nation by pointing out the limitations of empirical evidence and encouraging individuals to rely on their senses and emotions to achieve moral improvement. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson published Nature. His work influenced writers who gathered around him, forming a movement known as Transcendentalism.

Applying What You’ve Learned:

1. The 19th century was a period of religious revival and innovation. Established churches held massive revival campaigns and preached to crowds all over the country. Evangelical faiths prospered at the expense of the establishment Congregational and Episcopalian churches. The Southern Baptists were organized to uphold slavery on a philosophical and religious basis. With a large number of immigrants starting in the...