Second Great Awakening Terms

The Second Great Awakening

A social movement that sparks reform movements. It was mainly faith based.

Charles Grandson Finney

One of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening, and minister/revivalist

Circut Riders

traveling preachers (evangelists) who built churches

Evangelical Movements

where the protestants turned to

Joseph Smith

religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 (1805-1844). Church of Jesus Christ Ladder Day Saints

Brigham Young

Led the Ladder Day Saints Church in Utah, made christian university BYU

John Humphreys Noyes/Oneida Communities

Believed that Jesus had already returned (The Second Great Awakening) - Spin off of Evangelicals

Ann Lee/Shakers

Did not believe in reproduction

Johann George Rapp/Rappites

They believed in communal life.

American Temperance Union

1836, It united temperance groups and distributed tracts warning against strong drinking. (Against Alcohol). This sparked dry communites

William Lloyd Garrison

Published a newspaper series called, The Liberator. He was a big abolitionist

The Liberator

An anti-slavery (abolitionist) newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.

Democracy in America/De Tocqueville

He was a French Philosopher who wrote, Democracy in America.

Seneca Falls Convention

(1848) the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

First leader of the women's rights movement in 1840. She shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal."

Susan B. Anthony

Key leader of woman rights movement

The three greatest accomplishments of the Second Great Awakening

- Religious Revival
- Abolition (anti-slavery)
- Womens rights movement

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin about slavery in the South

Underground Railroad

a network in the United States that helped thousands of enslaved people escape from the south and into the north/Canada