Second Great Awakening

The second great awakening and the emphasis on increased morals encouraged reform movements that sought to expand democratic ideals. With the focus on intense religious revivalism and reform movements such as temperance, abolition, and education, the United States created a more democratic society. The second great awakening was led by Charles G. Finney who preached that human beings were saved by faith but that they should demonstrate such faith through moral correctness and good works (Doc.…

The Second Great Awakening promoted individuals to improve themselves and the world around them. This religious virtue helped to reinforce qualities necessary for participation in the market economy. After people came to follow this belief that realized that it was…

In the nineteenth century, Transcendentalism and the Second Great Awakening were responses to the eighteenth century Market Revolution. Opportunities became available to society which led to the growth of the American people. This paper will argue the significant impact to which caused changes in America society as a result of these two movements. The Market Revolution began to take over the United States in the eighteen century. American innovations changed the way people were transported…

evolved from segregation in the workplace and familial liabilities to advocating women’s rights in society. The workplace for women in the market revolution gave them economic and employment opportunities, while at home, changing with the Second Great Awakening, women were bound to a cult of domesticity, being a homemaker as well as obeying the husband and taking care of the children. Both of these roles culminated into the woman’s rights of the Seneca Falls Convention, leading women closer to…

The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalism The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalism is a book written by Barry Hankins in 2014. The main idea that the book reflects is that the Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalism reinforced Americans beliefs in the individual’s importance and support even as it helped to bring a sense of community to a highly nomadic masses. The Second Great Awakening movement transformed the American religion and society in a number of ways.…

1A) During the 1790s and early 1800s, some Americans took part in a Christian renewal movement called the Second Great Awakening. 1B) The effects of the Second Great Awakening are spent the spread of church membership across the United States and new movements inspired by this reform in order to reform society in the aspects of education, prison, slavery and alcohol abuse. 2A) Dorothea Dix's work helped to reform prisons. Her work led to more than 100 state hospitals for mentally ill people. 2B)…

a whole, was fairly primitive. Education was mostly found in private schools that could only be afforded by males in wealthier classes. Pursuing any form of higher education was very rare and accessible to a limited number of students. The Second Great Awakening inspired the creation of new religious sects that had vastly different views about the current society they lived in. Some members of these new religions were so displeased with their…

the growth of literacy in general and the Bible knowledge in particular. For example, in 1824 they formed the American Sunday School Union” (Butler, Wacker and Balmer 189). In The Democratization of American Christianity, during time of the Second Great Awakening, the author traces this really…

less religious. In order to bring people back into churches, and increase piety, religious revivals took place. Most people view the First Great Awakening as more influential than the Second Great Awakening, but the Second Great Awakening is far more influential politically and socially despite both of their striking similarities. The First Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred around the 1730s-’40s. This religious revival was based around Puritan and Congregational ideas.…

o the Americans experience a religious energy that was known as the Great Awakening. There was another religious energy that was known as the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement in the first of the 1800's. The Second Great Awakening influenced the American life. It began in Kentucky and later is spread into the north and south. there was a religious inspiration for the second great awakening and it was spread through outdoor services and this was known as…