Women's rights
This religious revival movement, which peaked in the early-to-mid 19th century, encouraged women to participate in public life through various social reform movements
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This religious revival movement of the early 19th century emphasized individual moral responsibility and sparked numerous social reforms, including the movement to end slavery.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This social movement, heavily influenced by religious revivals, advocated for a reduction or complete ban on alcohol consumption.
What is the temperance movement?
This reformer, known as the "Father of the Common School," advocated for free, tax-supported public schools, arguing they were essential for a democratic society.
Who was Horace Mann?
This type of large, emotional religious gathering was a hallmark of the Second Great Awakening.
What were camp meetings?
Inspired by the moral imperative of the Awakening, many future women's rights activists first found their public voice in this movement, dedicated to ending slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement (or anti-slavery movement)?
A key tenet of the Second Great Awakening was "moral suasion," the belief that slavery was a [blank] and that individuals had a spiritual duty to seek its immediate end.
What is a sin?
Adherents of the Second Great Awakening believed that by ending personal and societal sins like drunkenness, they could help create this ideal state on Earth.
What is a "heaven on Earth" (or a perfect, millennial society)?
The Second Great Awakening emphasized virtues like hard work, and temperance, leading to this type of textbook, which aimed to teach young Americans morality through stories and lessons.
What were the McGuffey Readers?
Preachers during the Second Great Awakening emphasized this concept, stating that an individual's free will could lead to salvation, a shift from earlier Calvinist ideas.
What is "free will"?
Barred from speaking at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, these two women were inspired to organize the first women's rights convention in the United States years later.
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This prominent revivalist preacher, known as the "Father of Modern Revivalism," not only condemned slavery from the pulpit but also became a professor and president at Oberlin College, which was known for accepting Black students and women.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
Founded in Boston in 1826, this was the first national organization to advocate for abstinence from alcohol and was largely driven by women.
What is the American Temperance Society?
The Second Great Awakening's focus on social reform and morality directly influenced the creation of these schools for women and African Americans, though many were still limited by prejudice.
What were early colleges for women and African Americans?
This phrase describes the widespread religious belief during the Second Great Awakening that motivated individuals to improve society through various social reform movements.
What is perfectionism?
This pivotal meeting in 1848, which launched the formal women's rights movement, produced a document that used the structure of the Declaration of Independence to list women's grievances.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This New England area, particularly in western New York, was a center for intense religious revivals and radical reform movements, earning it the nickname the "[blank] District."
What is the Burned-over District?
This prominent revivalist preacher, known for his emotional "new measures," strongly supported the temperance movement and other social reforms, viewing them as essential to a Christian life.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
Beyond common schools, the revival also spurred the creation of this type of religious camp meeting, where thousands would gather for evangelical preaching, often leading to significant social and educational reform efforts within the communities that attended.
What was a camp meeting?
During the Second Great Awakening, this denomination grew to become the largest in the United States by the 1830s, primarily through the use of frontier revivalism and "circuit riders."
What is the Methodist denomination?
Abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth, an evangelical Protestant during the Second Great Awakening, delivered her most famous speech at a women's convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851. The two-word title this speech is most commonly known by is this.
What is "Ain't I a Woman?"
Inspired by the moral imperatives of the Awakening, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison demanded the immediate abolition of slavery in his newspaper, titled The [blank].
What is The Liberator?
In 1851, temperance advocates achieved a major legislative victory when this state passed the first law in the nation to ban the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
What is Maine?
The revival's emphasis on individual salvation and moral perfectionism led to a surge in interest in self-improvement, which in turn supported this educational movement that focused on expanding literacy and knowledge for all people, regardless of class or background.
What was the temperance movement?
This movement, which grew out of the Second Great Awakening, sought to eliminate social ills like slavery and alcohol consumption, and was deeply influenced by the evangelical belief that society could be made perfect.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?