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How did the Second Great Awakening influence the reform movements of the nineteenth century? How did these reform movements socially re-shape the United States and allow for growing sectionalism?
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The Second Great Awakening brought forth a tremendous religious fervor that effected many social and political movements occurring during the time.
ReplyDeleteThe most direct and largest change was brought to the role of women where the many religious meetings and camps opened its doors to the women of the society. Gradually, through attending church and devoting themselves to organise charitable organizations, women became key figures of religious life where they were now being seen as being spiritually equal to men.
Another change was brought to the slaves. The Awakening had also provided segregated revivals in which the emotional intensity of such a gathering became very important to the black people as well as to black preachers, who played a crucial role in the spiritual welfare of his people. Not only that, abolition was also being preached by white men such as Charles Finney, the later president of Oberlin college who was the first to admit women and black people into campus. It was now obvious that the fire of abolition was being lit.
However, the awakening was also a time when social, economical, and political schisms were becoming obvious; and perhaps greatest problem lay in the issue of abolitionism. The Baptist and the Methodist churches, as well as the Northern and Southern churches were separated in views that concerned the economical and the social values of slavery. The sectionalism created here would later contribute to the main causes of the American Civil War.
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ReplyDeleteThe second great awakening influenced the reform movements of the nineteenth century in many ways. It was the period of great religious revival with widespread Christian evangelism and conversions.
ReplyDeleteAs kirin mentioned one of the great changes brought by the second great Awakening was how women were allowed to attend religious meetings and camps. Women were usually excluded from other forms of entertainment and social opportunities so the revivals brought huge numbers of them. The new gospels emphasized the importance of the role in women in bringing their famlies to Christian life. Due to this they placed an equal value on the spiritual worth of men and women.Women started to become key figures of religious life and played crucial wars in charitable organizations.They went on to become pioneers and crusaders in nineteenth century social reform.
Black slaves and freed men could also attend segregated companion revivals.
The Second Great Awakening didn't only revive the Americans' interests in a religion, but the whole morality and brought several changes in the perspective.
ReplyDeleteWomen's role was emphasized during the Second Great Awakening, since they were even more passionate about the religion than the males were. They had more time to devote themselves and throughout the religious meetings, had an opportunity to be strongly united. The evangelists also recognized the female role's importance and considered male and female as equal. This contributed greatly in changing people's perspective, and later became a support for the feminist movement.
The religion had a huge impact on the African slaves as well. They became attached to the religion as a tool to escape from their harsh situation. The slaves started to develop their own religious community and the black preachers gained fame and respect, which made the government concerned in the end. As the new members of the religious community, the Americans started to consider the slaves' position, and the voice of the abolitionists began to be heard.
In addition to these, the Second Great Awakening brought the Americans' attention to various social problems at the time such as over consuming of alcohol, foul prison environment, and cruel treatment of mentally ills. Social reforms took place to alleviate the situation, which were influenced by the religious ideas and motivation.
On the other hand, the Second Great Awakening fueled the sectionalism as the interests and the perspective of each division differed depending on the region. Especially the opinion concerning the slavery and abolition showed an obvious split between North and South. While South carried on the slavery, believing the economical benefit of continuing it, North was advocating the abolition. As other people commented, this split played as the main role in the coming-up Civil War.
One of the most important aspects of the Second Great Awakening was the fact that women were allowed to attend and participate in the revival meetings. This was a time where many places men frequented were neither fit or did not allow women within their walls. Later on, Charles Grandison Finney, a former lawyer turned minister, during his sustained revival, encouraged women to pray aloud alongside the men. This equal treatment of women lit an already existing fuse and helped contribute to the beginning of the woman's suffrage movement. Finney was also known for denouncing slavery from the pulpit to his captivated listeners, using eloquent speeches to sway the masses to his cause. Primarily in the north, these abolitionist viewpoints served to fan the flames of the slowly growing anti-slavery movement. Both of these clashed with already-existing viewpoint of many people that women were inferior to men and African Americans were still nothing more than property, widening the rift already between the camps of universal suffrage and select suffrage, inflaming the issue of sectionalism and contributing to the beginnings of the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteThe Second Great Awakening questioned the belief of damnation, and a vengeful God. Rumours of a loving God spread around, and this brought about reform movements. These movements involved religious revivals, which preached the Gospels, and allowed for social relations to improve. The improvement in social relations led to the Utopian movements, where different districts were set up so that the common people could live in a “utopian”, or ideal society.
ReplyDeleteThanks to the Second Great Awakening (SGA), women were allowed to take part in religious meetings and black slaves were allowed to join some churches. Because of this, black preachers became common.
ReplyDeleteHowever, because of the black slave's increasing 'freedom', the tension between the North (against slavery) and the South (for slavery) rose dramatically into what will become the "Civil War'.
The Second Great Awakening lead to the huge religious revival. There were lots of Christian revival meetings and conversions going on.
ReplyDeleteBefore the Awakening, women were excluded from any entertainments and their social status wasn't equal to men. As they started to attend church and meetings, women became an important figure of the religious life. Women were responsible for her husband and children's spiritual being.Also there were more women elementary teachers in the 19th century.
This Awakening also lead to numbers of reform movements such as Utopian, temperance, suffrage, prison and abolition. During the 19th century, people oconsumed two to three times of Alcohol then the present Americans. So there were many crime, poverty and DV occuring during these days.
The Second Great Awakening brought not only religious revival but also reform movements and to Civil War.
The Second Great Awakening was great system that makes people believing in god (Transcendentalism). This had changed the people of United States in te nineteenth century.
ReplyDeleteThese reform reshaped the American society by looking at how they improved so much after the 19th century. Before that, there were many problems like no women's rights (which they have the same status as the slaves) and there were huge number of slavery in America which caused a lot of problems and tensions. This reformation had totally changed the American societies.
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ReplyDeleteThe second great awakening made the country change in many ways. Before the second great awakening, the role of the women were not important compare to men. In the second great awakening, women attended to the religious camp. As a result, women granted a better role.
In the second great awakening, people wanted better christianity instead of traditional christianity. Then Methodists and Baptists were made, which was pretty close to the religion Christianity. This movement lead to reform movements such as prison reform, abolitionism, and temperance.
Also, the second great awakening denounced the slavery. Slaves became to be allowed in the religious meeting. Because the slavery was denounced, there were more freedoms for slaves. This made a battle between South, which agreed on denouncing the slavery and the North, which had an opposite opinion as South.
The second great awakening was a wave of religions. social and governments believed in different kind of religions and Christian evangelism spread a lot.
ReplyDeleteWomen did not have power before second great awakening but in second great awakening, women got much more power than they had before. Women got the right to attend religious camps.
slavery had changed too. there were more freedoms to slavery and they were able to attend to religious meetings which they couldn't before.
Ryo Kurosawa
The second great awakening was a period of time which led into the anlebellum period in the United States. This movement influenced the reformations of mostly in the religious aspects, but also effected in many other ways such as in socially, politically, and economicaly.
ReplyDeleteOne of the main cahnged happened in this period of time was probably of the status of women. Until then, they did not have any right ans they were not equally treated, but after this movement, women were involved in religious meetings and they became important in falimilies.
Also, black people were able to join churches , the numbers of slavery was decreasing and the North was against the idea of slavery. Black people startede to get more respect from the whites.
the sencond great awakening brought the society closer.after the sencond great awakening women are allowed to attend many other events such as religous camp, voting rights, ect.... Also the second great awakening allowes slaves to attend any reigious meeting.this lead to many reform movement latter on as well for exmaple prison reform, women rights, ablitionism,temperance
ReplyDeleteFrom 1790 to 1840, a great religious revival happened in the United States in which people attended numerous revival meetings and conversions. This period is called the Second Great Awekening. Througout this period, women updated their social statuses by devoting themselves to religious meetings and camps. Before the Second Great Awekening, women were not equally treated, and men didn't even let them have a voice. Another great impact of this period were the reform movements which denounced slavery in the country. This allowed African Americans more freedom and allowed them to become involved with religious activities. However, at the same time, the increase in freedom of the slaves led to a conflict among the South and North which had opposing thoughts about slavery.
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The Second Great Awakening was a pathway to a wider range of religious movements. It was also renowned for the inclusion of women in the religious meetings and such and not only at home looking after the family. And another big change was the Blacks involvement in the community such as they were allowed to join churches and it was definitely more noticeable that they were receiving a lot more trust and respect from the other races. Also the North was a lot more against slavery so the numbers of active slaves decreased.But at the same time because of the change, there was more uprising violence and conflicts because of the difference's.
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The Second Great Awakening was like the First Great Awakening, people stated to reanalyze religious believes. The difference was that many religious revivals were happening during the Second Great Awakening which involved a large amount of people. These revivals were generally camp meetings held in the fall after harvesting since most of the followers were lower class people. The revivalist changed many different people's perspective of the society. For example, women were allow to join the revival which triggers the cause of Woman's rights movement. These Religious revivals emphasized the importance of individualism and salvation. The characteristic of God changed to a fatherly figure who has the desire to save everyone of his children down to the lost sinner. These religious revival brought powerful emotional and spiritual sense that it helped the people in the society to have something to support them. These religious point of view is what triggers the social reforms later on.
ReplyDeleteControversial problems such as slavery and woman's rights, were more recognized than before during the Second Great Awakening. These social schisms went under a great reformation which cold possibly re-shaped the U.S society and sectionalism. Some of these reforms included improvements in education, alcohol control, woman's right, and slavery.
The second great awakening lead the society to a different path. It was a religous revival that extened into the antebellum period. Thanks to the sceond great awakening, womans has much more rights then before. They were allow to attend more events, for example, the religious camp.It also denounced the slavery, which made the slaves have more freedom. They were allow to attend relious meeting
ReplyDeleteThe Second Great Awakening had showed magnificent influence upon political and economical movement at that period. The biggest effect that the Second Great Awakening brought upon to the reform movement was the right of woman.
ReplyDeleteThe reform movement had changed the moral thinking of the people at that time. The establishment of antislavery, the treatment of mentally ill people, and the rights of women. The idea of allowing slavery and antislavery really separated and showed forward action to the conflict that was freezing for a long period.
Seiya
The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement that caused a great shift and rift (heehee… :D) in the opinions of what the balance of “equality” between whites and blacks, males and females should be. Upon the dawning of the Second Great Awakening, many churches and religious affairs opened their arms to females and blacks. This equality in the religious realm shed some well-deserved light on the unresolved question on the restrictions of equality for “all people”; in other words, the fight for women’s rights and abolition were finally set out for more open debate. This rebalancing of equality in men, women, and blacks brought into view a bigger dilemma of lopsided equality: reforms for the deaf, blind, mentally ill, prisoners, education, and temperance were also put into question. The conflicting opinions on these matters, however, became sources for sectionalism in the United States to grow.
ReplyDeleteThe Second Great Awakening is a religious revival in the late eighteenth century. This influenced greatly both in the other reform movements such as in temperance, women’s rights, and abolitionism.
ReplyDeleteBy the late 1700s, people in America started to not attend church services due to the differences of people’s beliefs in religion. Therefore this decline of the people’s faith in religion, many people felt its need for religious revival.
People started off with gathering which included women as well. The gatherings gave opportunity to the women and express their thoughts. That is why women’s chance of involvement increased due to the Second Great Awakening which led to the other reform movements.
The Second Great Awakening was a huge religous movement in early 1800s. It influenced greatly in the reformation movement in the 19th century especially with women's rights. During this period there were many religious revivals held around US. Women were allowed to attend in these revivals even thought they were excluded from other entertainments. Also gospels told women's importance in a family. As woman start to contribute in many religious things, they slowly became a key figure in religious life. Women were gradually considered equal to men and were starting to be respected.
ReplyDeleteThe Second Great Awakening was a dramatic religious movement, which also resulted in effecting the political and social movements.
ReplyDeleteThis religious movement gave more mercy to the lower classes of the society. The religion taught the importance of the roles of women, and so The Second Great Awakening gave a turning point in their ideologies, where their minds quickly switched to think that women are also an important figure of the society. Slaves and women were allowed to attend religious gatherings and women began to have voting rights.
Since this spread of religion was spread all over, small religious groups became rebellious and so they created their own indivisual groups; which lead into growing the sectioncalism (also known as separatism).
How did the Second Great Awakening influence the reform movements of the nineteenth century? How did these reform movements socially re-shape the United States and allow for growing sectionalism?
ReplyDeletethe second great awakening was a period of great religious revival which resulted in several reform movement. the reason of the great awakening causing several revival movement lay in the two main strains of the revival. the two main strains were
1. the Virtues and behavior of the expanding middle class-a strong work ethic, frugality and temperance-were endorsed and legitimized.
2. its emphasis on the ability of individuals to amend their lives engendered a wide array of reform movements aimed at redressing injustice and alleviating suffering - a democratizing effect.
because of number 2, reforms for deaf, blind,mentally ill and prison,slaves and women were encouraged.
because of number 1, reforms for education and temperance were encouraged.
these reforms shaped the united states in a positive way. By the reforms for the deaf, mentally ill and prison and woman, the standards of lives of every American was imporved.
However, the reform also resulted in developing sectionalism. Because of the slavery reform movement, North and South tension worsened. The Northerners believed that slavery being hte greatest national sin. Abolitonist started attacking supporter of the slaves. The tension between them could no longer be mitigated and North and South could not condone each other resulting in a national conflict.
How did the Second Great Awakening influence the reform movements of the nineteenth century? How did these reform movements socially re-shape the United States and allow for growing sectionalism?
ReplyDeleteThe second great awakening was a time of religious revival. The second great awakening both stimulated old religions and created new beliefs and values. One main idea of the Second Great Awakening was that people always had the chance for salvation and that people had second chances, this sparked reforms in equality and treatment of mentally ill. The reform movements allowed for growing sectionalism because the north had a different value system from the south and even though both sides went through dramatic reforms the beliefs of how problems and especially slavery should be solved was still extremely different.
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ReplyDeleteThe Second Great Awakening was a time when religious revival sparked and “burned-over” many areas in New England and in the south, evangelizing the American people. Preachers began to teach through the context of universalism, that a benevolent God, not a vengeful God, desired to give salvation to all that would repent and believe in Him. This idea of universalism also led to the beliefs that men and women had equal spiritual values. Preachers taught that women had important roles in their families and societies. This encouraged women to stand up for their rights, demanding equal public, political status, such as the right to vote and the right to hold property.
In addition to the social improvements that branched out from the concept of universalism, reforms for the physically and mentally disabled occurred during this time. Education was offered for the deaf, dumb, and blind, and many hospitals were built for the mentally ill.
Another social reform influenced by the Second Great Awakening was the movement towards abolition. This became a great issue because the southern states were against giving freedom to their slaves. This separation in opinion with slavery as the core issue led to the gradual division of the country, which also became a precursor for the Civil War.
The Second Great Awakening doubt that God was a angry and vengeful God as in the Puritan's belief. This marked a large turning point in not only in the religion of the United States, but also to the social aspect of the countries. Many reforms were done with the belief that the God was caring and loving God, and so education, care for criminals and disabled, temperance, women's right, and abolition saw a great progress and improvement during the Second Great Awakening.
ReplyDeleteBut because of these reforms done, conflicts with those who believe in the "old" way, and those who believe in reforms resulted in the split between the people and even the states. Especially split between the north and the south were obvious in the way that North agreed to most of the reforms, and the south were not so much coopertive to these reforms (especially abolition).
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ReplyDeleteThe Second Awakening called Christians in the United States to take it upon themselves to reform society from 1790 to the 1840's. It was a period of religious revival and promoted the idea that God loves everyone and everyone has a chance to return to God's favor over the previously overpreached concept that sin results in God's fiery wrath. Many Christians embraced this idea as well as non-Christians which lead to a huge religous explosion amongst the people. The reforms implicated by the Second Great Awakening, known as the "antebellum" reform, included temperance, women's rights, and abolitionism.
ReplyDeleteTemperance was called for when realization of the amount of alcohol that was being consumed by the average American every year was brought out into light. Because of the influence of alcohol that can be placed upon oneself may lead to unrighteous deeds of any sort, alcohol was to be shunned.
Women's rights were upheld by the Second Great Awakening due to the idea brought to the table that God loves everyone, and therefore everyone is equal in the eyes of God, including women.
Abolitionism was also encouraged by the Second Great Awakening under the same idea that all men were created equal. Christians thought of all humans as "God's children" and that 'all humans' did in fact include African American slaves. They sought to spread the Christian faith even more so that slaves too could be saved from their sins and freed spiritually.
The measures of reformation brought on the all but waning sensation of growing sectionalism in the United States at this time. The people's disagreement on these matters due to differences of opinions simply intensified arguments, and tensions erupted. The issue of slavery caused the strongest impacting divide as abolitionists batted on mainly the South for its social and economical "methods". People with coinciding arguments naturally clumped together to gain leverage amongst their opposers and thus the beginning of sectionalism had emerged.
The “Second Great Awakening” brought forth a religious revitalization throughout the whole US continent. Americans no longer valued tradition Christianity and Evangelicalism became widespread. The idea that salvation may be obtained through people’s own efforts and actions were introduced, and Evangelism taught the ability of humans to turn away from sinful behavior and embrace moral action. Both internal moral reform and social reform emerged from the Awakening along with sectionalism.
ReplyDeleteThe Awakening happened in different ways according to the local population and church establishment. In New England it resulted in interdenominational missionary societies. Members of these societies acted as apostles, but also as educators and civic leaders and converted many people, including black slaves and women. Finney, a leading man in the Awakening, was a fervent abolitionist and evangelist and he preached that the gospel was a way to reform society.
In the mid- Atlantic regions, the revival strengthened the Methodists and the Baptists, and revival took form as camp meetings. Social activism inspired by the revival gave rise to abolition of slavery (abolition) groups, and the Society for the Promotion of Temperance, and reformation of prisons, and care for the handicapped and mentally ill, and also utopian societies. The gospel stated that women are equal to men and are thus able to take part in camp meetings and religion. Evangelism appealed to women, and many become missionaries and preachers, as they were now being accepted in religious affairs.
The issue of slavery was still a big problem. As slaves were now allowed to attend church the north opposed more greatly about slavery and abolition groups started movements of resistance against slavery. The south was still dependent upon slaves since they were necessary for the southern economy, and they opposed abolition groups in the north. Sectionalism was further amplified through the events of the second great awakening but the awakening was a significant movement for the future of the United States.
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ReplyDeleteIn the second Great Awakening, several tings happened. ne of the main things was that women,w o were previoously thought o be inferor, both spiritually and socially to men, were now thought to be o par with men, proven so at their intesnsity during revival camp meetings.
Another big thing was that there were segregated revival camps or meetings, which was a big deal because before, colored people were excluded from religious gatherings. Due to thi, many colored people were converted and many black preachers appeared. Also, white preachers were now preaching against slavery and preaching abolition, which was not really the start of abolition but, was a big step of the word of abolition being spread. These talks however, inevitably brought about disputes. As with all view points, there were different takes on abolition, the northern churches typicall were for it while the souther churches were against it.
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival and that made lots of reform movements (19th century.) This hugely effected the rights of women, slaves, and others.
ReplyDeleteDuring The Second Great Awakening, they denounced the slavery, gave the rights to women and children, and also made the school for the mentally dissabled people to advance their educations. This Awakening also spreaded the religions throught out all the places. That made lots of small religious groups create their own individual groups and lead growing the separatism.
The Second Great Awakening was not simply just a religious transformation, It was also the start of the present ideologies stating minority must not be undermined or ignored.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest opposition between puritan/ Calvinist belief and evangelical belief was that unlike the old theory of a vengeful god seeking damnation, the new view was that of a kind and loving god that gave all of humanity (including the minorities), the chance to be blessed by the man up there. ( They also had totally radical revival meetings).This new ideologies that minorities must not be oppressed and ignored, there fore, must be presented with the opportunity to become an evangelist lead to the reformation acts of the blind, deaf, mentally ill, etc and women.
The evangelical belief that woman and blacks were as important to the society as men and the fact that female and blacks followers were permitted to the entertaining revival meetings ignited the popularity of evangelicalism amongst the countries oppressed minorities.The existence of black gospels was especially a bold large step away from the belief that blacks are inferior to white Christians along with the mentally ill, females and many other minorities.
In the antebellum years in the US the Second Great Awakening, which is a religious revival movement, caused thousands of people to convert to Evangelicalism instea of traditional Christianity. This new religion embraced indicidual salvation and taught that it could be obtained through one's way of actions and efforts. This shift had brought to the people a new way of life, and helped them realize other problems in life, hence causing reform movements in other social areas. Some of the movements include: temperance, women's rights and abolition, which began to spread throughout the continent.
ReplyDeleteThe time period that these reform movements took place, around the first half of the nineteenth-century, was later called the "Age of Reform" because of the reform movements regarding many social issues that politicians had avoided, or ignored, in the earlier years of the US. Therefore, the people stood up to face the issues and became what was called Reformers. The roots to many of what is now provided for every citizen in the US, for example equal public education for the children, women's rights, legal drinking age, equal rights for every race, etc., were created during this time period. Of all reform movements, however, the most notable was abolitionism because it had greatly affected the following sectionalism and eventually the Civil War. The claims and speeches made by abolitionists distinguished the difference of opinions, depending on the area people lived in--the northerners favored putting an end to slavery, while the southerners insisted on the continuance of the system so strongly that the House of Reresentatives even passed a gag rule, prohibiting people from discussing the topic . However the effect was simply nothing. This controversial issue eventually became a physical battle betwen the two groups.
During the second great awakening, people were introduced to the new idea that the almighty god was a kind, gracious and heartfelt, higher power, rather than the spiteful and feared god people had previously believed him to be. Religious conventions were held, dedicated to preaching this new concept. These conventions were open to African Americans and women and provided to be a contributing factor in the gateway to the abolishment of slavery and the establishment of equality for women. These conventions gave African Americans and women a voice to grow and control which spread along with the religion across the country like wild fire. These new virtuous concepts that were preached inspired people to contribute their own acts of kindness and help those in need. These inspirational times got people to take a leap and take consideration in supporting the deaf and blind as well as the mentally challenged amongst all the other reform movements. All of these reform movements provided dearly needed changes to the country and bettered the general welfare for example, those mentally challenged were provided with asylums to separate them from the real dangerous criminals in jail. Also, schools for the blind and deaf were established so that they could receive a proper education and be hired for work. These are just a few examples of the many pleasant outcomes of the second great awakening and the reform movements and how they led to bettering out country.
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ReplyDeleteDuring Second Great Awakening in America it was time when happened a lot of reforms and people movements. Its started from religious movements as people became to belief in God. Women didn't had rights, during awakening the women fought for them rights, given peaches about that they were created in same way as men. They inventively did convenience where they rights were same as males. Also alcohol were used by workers too much. The businessmen and owner of manufactures needed people who will concentrate on them work. That reform in which was people should drink less and after this reform statistic of drinking men of how much alcohol was drunk per men went down. The South had they own economy which were basic on slavery. The North had people who were against slavery they were called abolitionists. The abolitionists were helping slaves to get freedom it was they movement of reform slavery.
This reforms helped to develop US social life and create new understanding of how world were created. The country were debated on slavery part and part where people were against slavery. Women got all rights same as males they were allowed to vote, open meetings, and others.
The Second Great Awakening were a really big group of a religious in U.S. his is similar to the First Great Awakening, but the first one, women had no rights to set a camp for religious meeting. But the second one allowed women to attend many events and make roles. Also slaves became allowed to come for the religious meeting.
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