Second Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was when many Americans took part in a renewal movement of this religion.
Christianity
This group of people often led the reform movements
women
This person was a leader of the movement that wanted all children taught in a common place, regardless of background
Horace Mann
He founded the Free African Religious Society
Richard Allen
Separate
Segregate
He was considered one of the most important leaders of this movement.
Charles Grandison Finney
The concern about alcohol led to this movement
temperance
This person started an all-female academy in Hartford, CT.
Catharine Beecher
Why were slaveholders fearful of slaves learning to read and write?
it might encourage a spirit of revolt among slaves
Places where children who had been housed in prisons now lived under strict rules and learned useful skills
reform schools.
This person opposed the person who was considered the leader of the Second Great Awakening.
Lyman Beecher
This person was a middle class reformer that fought for prison reform
Dorothea Dix
This person improved the education and lives of people with hearing impairments.
Thomas Gallaudet
Philadelphia had a long history of educating African Americans because if was center of this religions influence.
Quaker
emotional prayer meetings that lasted for days
revival
The leaders of the SGA told congregations that each individual was responsible for his or her own salvation and that this was avoidable
sin
These people were often jailed and left in the dark, without clothes or heat, and were chained to the walls.
mentally ill
The leader of the common-school movement went to this college and was given this title by the state of Massachusetts.
Brown, Secretary of Education
In 1835, this college became the first to allow African Americans to attend.
Oberlin College
People in this movement wanted all children taught in a common place, regardless of background.
common-school movement.
What impact did the Second Great Awakening have on religion in America?
church membership grew and religious faith increased
This Boston mayor asked that young offenders of crimes receive different punishments than adults
Josiah Quincy
These readers were grade specific and contained selections from British and American literature in them as well as instructions in moral and social values.
McGuffey's Readers
He pushed for schools for blacks
Alexander Crummel
What does A.M.E. stand for?
African Methodist Episcopal Church