Final Exam Terms #6: The Second Great Awakening

For Professor Garmon's AMST 100 Final. Terms regarding the Second Great Awakening.

The Second Great Awakening

Religious movement that emphasized the idea of one’s own personal relationship with God being the way to Heaven

Itinerant Preachers

Preachers who move around from place to place

Burned Over District

Area where people were so enthusiastic about the church that there was no one to convert

Social Reform

Everyone should be involved in trying to help others

The Temperance Movement

Movement by the American Temperance Society that pushed to have alcohol banned in the United States, about 5 million people got on board and signed a temperance pledge

Sabbatarianism

Since Sabbath is a holy day then people shouldn’t work on Sundays, so people boycotted businesses on Sundays and even kidnapped a postal worker