Second Great Awakening

Which statement best explains how the Second Great Awakening influenced change in American society?

• It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.

• It inspired the growth of social reform movements.

• It led to the industrialization of northern cities

• It encouraged Southerners to assert their rights by seceding.

True or False: As a result of the Second Great Awakening (a series of revivals in the 1790s-early 1800s), the dominant form of Christianity in America became evangelical Protestantism

• True

• False

True or False: Charles Finney conducted his own revivals in the mid 1820s and early 1830s.

• True

• False

What are the TWO factors that led to growth of abolition movement in North in 1820s and 1830s.

• The Second Great Awakening (starts 1801) inspired a reform spirit in the North

• Agitation of black abolitionists and signs of black unrest in the South inspired white abolitionists

• Southern postmasters refused to deliver antislavery literature

• In 1835 President Andrew Jackson unsuccessfully petitioned Congress to ban the mailing of abolitionist pamphlets

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

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted -

• spiritual revival and the need for social reform

• the use of reason and scientific theory

• states' rights and governmental reform

• mercantilism and the development of global trade

During the ___________ in the 1820s and 1830s, religion grew in North America and by the 1850s twice as many Americans attended church than they had at the birth of the country.

• Second Great Awakening

• Reform Era

• First Great Awakening

• temperance movement

Second Great Awakening

• Second Great Awakening

• temperance movement

• Era of Good Feelings

• abolitionists movement

• Second Great Awakening

• temperance movement

• Era of Good Feelings

• abolitionists movement

What was the effect of the 2nd Great Awakening?

• People were inspired to join reform movements and fix social issues

• Churches focused on religious issues

• More people became Catholics

• The federal government lost power