2nd Great Awakening

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2nd Great Awakening

• Objective 2.05/2.06

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Causes

• Church attendance was greatly weakening
• Growth of scientific knowledge and rationalism
• Began in Kentucky, spread all over, especially in
  frontier areas

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Basic Message

• Readmit God and Christ into daily lives
• Delivered through revivals
• Emotional sermons
• Given outside
• Could last for months
• LeaderCharles Grandison Finney, a Presbyterian
  minister

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Effects

• Nationalism
• Everyone coming together
• Market Economy Growth
• People more disciplined, working harder, and not
  drinking
• Increased Democracy
• Individual control over salvation

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Growth of Religious Groups

• Methodist and Baptist membership grew most
• Rationalist Unitarianism
• Rejected idea of Jesus being son of God
• Name unity with God, not trinity of Father, Son
  and Holy Spirit

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• Unitarian Universalism
• Universal salvation of souls
• Rejected the idea of Hell
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
• a.k.a. Mormons
• Began by Joseph Smith, after his murder, Brigham
  Young became leader