This is referred to when Americans had experienced a SECOND burst of religious energy that swept the country beginning in the early 1800s and lasted for nearly half the century.

• Abolitionist Movement

• Second Great Awakening

• The Great Awakening

• Temperance Movement

Preachers who wanted to revive, or reenergize, the role of religion in gaining salvation encouraged the idea that people could improve themselves and their souls.

• Episcopal

• Revivalists

• Transcendetalist

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individuals who give passionate sermons designed to elicit strong emotions and attract converts are known as:

• Evangelical

• Baptist

• Jews

• Hindu

One of the most influential revivalists of his time and was a former attorney.

• Tammy Faye Bakker

• Joel Osteen

• Charles Grandison Finney

• Joseph Smith

In New York State, he spoke and wrote of visions he said directed him to found a new religious group. In 1830, he a few followers organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

• DeWitt Clinton

• Joseph Smith

• Fredrick Douglas

• Horace Mann

In 1830, Joseph Smith and a group of followers organize the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose members are commonly called this name

• Catholic

• Presbyterian

• Baptist

• Mormons

In New England, members of several Puritan or Congregational churches began to argue that, instead of seeing God as a "Trinity," people see God as a single divine being - a unity. They organized themselves into a separate religious group called the __________, after their belief.

In New England, this group developed a new way to look at humanity, nature, and God, and the relationship among them.

• Nirvana

• Transcendentalists

• Quaker

• Free Masons

A former Unitarian minister, was the leading Transcendentalist, he celebrated the interplay between the individual and the universe in sermons, essays, and poems.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Frank Reich

• Fredrick Douglas

• Horace Mann

One of the greatest school reformers and known as the father of education. He grew up poor and had firsthand experience with inadequate schooling. He never forgot his humble beginnings, which inspired him to work to provide all children with a better education than he had received.

• Alexander Hamilton

• Horace Mann

• Horace Grant

• DeWitt Clinton