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14 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Paine - Age Of Reason |
Author - Stated that the churches were setup to terrify and enslave mankind - 1794
Shocked american people - started a distrust toward churches |
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Deism |
Jefferson, Franklin / believed in science rather than religion but still believed in a creator(being) - C. 1794
Helped to being the unitarian faith |
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Unitarians |
Began in New Englanders - Jesus doesnt exist, but got serves as one being (Denies the infinity) stressed the goodness of humans / New England / C. 1800
Attracted intellectuals to the religion (optimistic) |
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Second Great Awakening |
Everyone / Many conversions and shattered churches / Accross american / C. 1800
Encouraged evangelicanism and led to prison reform, womens movement, abolishment of slavery |
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"Camp Meetings" and revivals |
Starved for religion peoples / gatherings around fires of 25,000 + People being taught by a traveling preacher / Frontier / C. 1800
Boosted church membership, humanitarian reforms, missionary work |
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Baptists and Methodists |
personal conversion as opposed to pre-destination / C.1800
Rousing emotionalism |
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Peter Cartwright |
Methodist preacher "Circuit Rider" converted many to the lord and muscular based preaching / Tennessee, Illinois / 1785 - 1872
Converted thousands of sinners |
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Charles Grandison Finney |
Revival Preacher - Trained as a lawyer, encouraged women to pray aloud in public, made the "anxious bunch" (Repentant sinners could of, in full view of the bongring / Rochester + NYC / 1785-1872
Eventually led to increased abolitionism |
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Burned Over District |
Sermonizers and new England Puritans / Puritans pissed at the "Hellfire Damnation" sermons / Western NY
Mollerfees and Adventists created (Christ would return Oct 22, 1844) |
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Mormons, Joseph Smith |
Wrestler, Visionary - Claims to have received gold plates from angels, invented mormonism (Opened Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) / "Embers" of the burned over district. 1830
Native american religion that spread through the world. |
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Brigham Young |
"Mormon Moses" / Picked up to be leader of the Mormon faith after Joseph Sinitheus murdered / Utah / 1846
populated the semiarite region of ohio, and delayed its statehood until 1896. |
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Public Education |
laborers, children -vs- wealthy / public education implemented after complaints from laborers and retaliation of "sermons" of "botennial" uneducated voters / 1825-1850
Helped education of Youngeons but not much men only taught the "Three R's" - Readin, Riting, Rithmetic |
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Horace Mann |
Sec. Of B.O.A. / Campaigned for better school houses, longer terms, higher $$ salary for teachers, expanded cirriculum / US / 1796-1859
His ideals reached many people, encouraged public education expansion |
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Noah Webster & William McGuffey |
Educated Men / creates dictionaries and textbooks, published grade-school readers / 1758-1873
Hammered in idealism, patriotism, and morality. |
