Test 5/4 Flashcards
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This religious activism -or evangelism was part of?
Overall era of reform that started in 1830s
Charles Grandison Finney
- most famous preacher of era
- inspired emotional religious faith
- lectured on conversion experience
What is abolition
Movement to outlaw slavery
All the movements are responses to american change such as
Early industrial growth
Increasing migration/immigration
New means on communication
Second Great Awakening
After 1790
Finney rejected 18th century calvinistic belief that God predetermined one’s salvation or damnation(whether person went to heaven or hell)
Emphasized individual responsibility for seeking salvation
-people CAN improve themselves and society
-all people (black n white) belonged to same God
What were revivals?
Gatherings, designed to awaken religious faith through preaching/prayer
- studied bible
- examined souls
Most intense revivals took place in?
Western NY bc religious fires
Charles conducted revivals in rochester ny
The rochester revivals earned finney what?
Reputation of Father of Modern Revivalism
African Methodist Episcopal Church
By Richard Allen
Blackes forced out of church in Phili
- center for african americans providing schools and services white denied
- fought slavery
Ralph waldo emerson
Founder of transcendentalist movement
Transcendentalism
Emphasized living simple life
- finding truth through reason the motion and nature
- individuals are equal and can change
Henry David Thoreau
Called for returns to simple life in nature
- urged people not to obey laws if unfair
- no violence (civil dis)
Why didn’t Thoraeu pay his taxes
He didnt want to finance war w mexico
Utopian communities
Experimental groups who tried to create a utopia, perfect place
What did George ripley establish
Established Brook Farm
Shakers
Followed Ann Lee
NY
-shares goods
-believed men and women are equal
Dorothea Dix
Visited jail in Massachusetts that housed ill people
- sent report to legislature who changed conditions
- convinced 9 southern states to build hospitals for mentally ill
Penn. established tax-supported school, where did opposition come from?
Taxpayers who saw no reason to pay since their kids went to private schools
Germans who feared kids would forget language
Horace Mann
Of MA
Promoted idea that all Americans must be educated for democratic citizenship
Established teacher training programs and instituted curriculum reforms
William Lloyd Garrison
Most radical white abolitionist
- paper “the liberator” delivered message of immediate emancipation
- attacked churches
Define emancipation
The freeing of slaves with no payment to slave holders
David walker
Free black
- fight for freedom
- wrote An appeal to the colored citizens of the world
- man who didnt fight stayed w fam in slavery
Frederick Douglass
- read/write
- knowledge is ket to freedom
- sponsored by garrison
- began newspaper “the north star”
Southern white went into farming cotton, help wanted in industries, as a result
Demand rose for slaves in mills and ships in southern cities