Second Great Awakening

What was the Hudson river school

A group of American artists who focused on landscape paintings

What was Romanticism in American Literature?

Romanticism in American Literature was the focus on emotions and creativity rather than logic and reason

What were the causes of the 2nd Great awakening

It was a reaction to the economic changes in the North and a loss of priority on religion

Charles Finney

The minister who started the 2nd Great Awakening

What were the beliefs supported in the 2nd Great Awakening

Economic forces were uncontrollable, but people still in control of their own relationship with God; equality of all believers

What was the role of women in the 2nd Great awakening

They were empowered by the ideas of the people being equal before God and used their roles to push reform movements such as temperance, abolition, and education

Dorothea Dix

A social reformer who advocated for the humane treatment of the mentally ill and worked to improve mental health care in the United States.

Effects of the 2nd Great Awakening

It set the stage for reform movements around abolition, temperance, access to education, marriage equality, voting rights, and prison reform., It also increased the role of women in society as well as a religious revival

Utopian communities

everyone lives in harmony and economic and social equality

Who were the mormons

They moved to Utah after persecution and sought to establish a society based on their religious beliefs led by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.

Horace Mann

led to the education reform movement. He established public schools

seneca falls convention

an assembly held in New York to begin the women’s suffrage movement