Second Great Awakening
Religious revival in the United States from the late 1790s to the 1840s that emphasized free will, individual salvation, and emotional camp meetings, which in turn led to various antebellum reform movements
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Reform movement in the Jacksonian era focused on the need for establishing free ____ ______ for all students
What is public education?
Led to creation of the Free Soil Party; focused on guarding western territories against spread of slavery; wanted to protect white workers opportunities on frontier
Baptist and Methodist ministers would travel from one location to another and attract thousands of people to hear their speeches at outdoor revivals
What are circuit preachers?
Following the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the campaign for equal voting, legal, and property rights for women
What is women's rights?
Lived in cities and risked being kidnapped/forced into slavery; state laws made life difficult; banned voting and restricted career opportunities
What is the lifestyle of free blacks in the South?
What beliefs did the Second Great Awakening reject?
What is Puritanism & predestination?
American Colonization Society & Liberty Party
What is the Antislavery Movement?
Growing abolitionist movement, abolitionist Christian denominations intentions were based on morals and desire for social reform, & still imported large amounts of southern cotton into textile factories
What are changes of slavery in the North?
A major economic shift in the early 19th century that transformed the US from a scattered, agrarian society to a modern, industrial economy
What is the Market Revolution?
Movement focused on the abstinence of alcohol due to the high rate of alcohol consumption (five gallons of hard liquor per person in 1820)
What is the Temperance Movement?
Nat Turner's Rebellion, Amistad case, Stono Rebellion
What is overt resistance?
Evangelist preacher who emphasized the individual’s power to seek salvation and reject sin, illustrating the connection between individualism and religious revival
Dorothea Dix launched a cross-country crusade, publicizing the awful treatment she had witnessed in mental hospitals, seeing mentally ill people locked up with convicted criminals in unsanitary cells
What is public asylum?
With the banning of the International Slave Trade in 1808 and the exhaustion of southern soil for cotton cultivation, slavery would abolish itself.
What is