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Methodist and Baptist Churches

Churches that started growing during the 1st Great Awakening (1730 - 1750) and kept growing even more during the 2nd Great Awakening (1800-1830).

circuit riders

Traveling ministers who rode horseback over regular routes and preached messages of religious revival during the Second Great Awakening.

outdoors

Camp meetings were usually held where?

camp meetings

Religious and social gatherings used by the Methodist and Baptist churches to recruit members and hear exciting and fiery sermons.

Cane Ridge, Kentucky

Site of the most notable camp meeting, which took place during the 2nd Great Awakening. It took place in 1801.

Burned Over District

Popular name for Western New York, a region particularly swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening.

Lyman Beecher, Charles Grandison

Name the two 2nd Great Awakening ministers that said there was a great deal of sin in America and that people needed to take action against the injustices and problems they saw in America (slavery, alcoholism, treatment of the mentally ill).

women

This demographic of people became more involved in church affairs and found inspiration in the equality given to them during the revivals and camp meetings.

Mormon Church

After facing extreme hostility in the Midwest, this religious group moved to Utah and established their influential church there.

Mormon Church
Seventh Day Adventist Church
AME Church

Name 3 unique churches that were started during the 2nd Great Awakening.

AME (African Methodist Episcopal Church)

During 2nd Great Awakening and the wide scale African American conversion to Christianity, this church that was specifically created for African Americans.