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    This document summarizes key events and movements of the Second Great Awakening reform era in the United States. It discusses how the Second Great Awakening sparked wider reforms by encouraging people to perfect society through good works. Notable reforms included the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, education reform, and treatment of the mentally ill. The era was also defined by the growth of new religious denominations and leaders like Charles Finney who advocated for social reforms. Philosophies like transcendentalism emerged, inspiring thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to question societal norms and find truth from within and in nature. Utopian communities also formed in this period seeking to build ideal societies

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    This document summarizes key events and movements of the Second Great Awakening reform era in the United States. It discusses how the Second Great Awakening sparked wider reforms by encouraging people to perfect society through good works. Notable reforms included the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, education reform, and treatment of the mentally ill. The era was also defined by the growth of new religious denominations and leaders like Charles Finney who advocated for social reforms. Philosophies like transcendentalism emerged, inspiring thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to question societal norms and find truth from within and in nature. Utopian communities also formed in this period seeking to build ideal societies

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    This document summarizes key events and movements of the Second Great Awakening reform era in the United States. It discusses how the Second Great Awakening sparked wider reforms by encouraging people to perfect society through good works. Notable reforms included the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, education reform, and treatment of the mentally ill. The era was also defined by the growth of new religious denominations and leaders like Charles Finney who advocated for social reforms. Philosophies like transcendentalism emerged, inspiring thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to question societal norms and find truth from within and in nature. Utopian communities also formed in this period seeking to build ideal societies

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    This document summarizes key events and movements of the Second Great Awakening reform era in the United States. It discusses how the Second Great Awakening sparked wider reforms by encouraging people to perfect society through good works. Notable reforms included the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, education reform, and treatment of the mentally ill. The era was also defined by the growth of new religious denominations and leaders like Charles Finney who advocated for social reforms. Philosophies like transcendentalism emerged, inspiring thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to question societal norms and find truth from within and in nature. Utopian communities also formed in this period seeking to build ideal societies

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    Reform

    • Put or change into an improved form or condition.


    • Do societies or policies/laws just change?
    • How does change happen?
    • Five movements occur that will define this era
    and give it the name era of reform.
    • The 2nd Great Awakening started everything.
    • From there people will work to…
    • Improve education, treatment of the mentally
    ill and education.
    • Abolish slavery
    • Gain equality for women and the right to vote.
    2 Great Awakening
    nd

    • The catalyst that kicked off a torrent of


    change.
    • The awakening grew in the early 1800s and
    reached a climax in the 40/50s.
    • This awakening reached out to non-religious
    people.
    • Instead of pre-destination, pastors said
    everyone could be saved and do it through
    good works.
    • They preached a message of being “filled with
    the Spirit of God”
    Heaven on Earth
    • This idea is what drove people to try and
    better society.
    • Many turned their focus to slavery.
    • Had the biggest impact in the north and west.
    Burned Over

    • The religious energy was so intense that revivals spread


    across New York state till hardly a town was untouched.
    • Eventually there was no more fuel. What was the fuel?
    Denomination Growth
    Charles G. Finney
    Leader of the movement
    •Revolutionary in his methods.
    •Women were allowed to participate
    in his ministry.
    •Denounced slavery from the pulpit
    and advocated for abolition.
    •His theology was that you were saved
    through grace by faith.
    •You showed that faith through good
    works.
    •He was president of Oberlin college
    in Ohio where he educated not only
    white men but women and African-
    Americans.
    Optimism
    • Newly awakened religious life inspired many
    to create a better world.
    • One new idea that was advocated by Ralph
    Waldo Emerson was Transcendentalism.
    Defining Transcendentalism
    “What lies behind us and what lies before us are
    small matters compared to what lies within us.”
    “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
    where there is no path and leave a trail.”
    “God enters by a private door into every individual.”
    “The highest revelation is that God is in every man.”
    Go beyond ordinary thought to reach a deep
    personal understanding.
    Transcendentalism
    • Emerson hated the way intellectuals and
    people were so unthinking and conformist.
    • The idea came from a skepticism of religion
    and a frustration was the current state of
    American life.
    • Many were upset with slavery, treatment of
    Indians, and wars with Mexico.
    • Transcendentalism followers believed that
    we should question everything in society.
    • To find God we should look within and look
    to nature.
    Finding your own way

    • Henry David Thoreau took the search for


    your own path to a higher level.
    • He moved out to the woods in Concord,
    MA to be close to nature and self-discover.
    • He would write in his journal during the
    two year solitude that “If a man does not
    keep pace with his companions, perhaps it
    is because he hears a different drummer.
    Let him step to the music he hears.”
    Henry and his cabin
    Utopia
    • What is Utopia?
    • While RWE and Thoreau had an individual spirit to
    transcendentalism others sought to create perfect
    communities.
    • George Ripley created a community called Brook Farm.
    • The idea was to have good people create an ideal
    society away from the ills of the larger world.
    • How would you create a Utopian community?
    • What would be your principles?
    George Ripley

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