Second Great Awakening Chart-Key/Thomas
Categories
Leaders
Geographic
location
Social Results
Second Great Awakening-1840s
Charles Grandison Finney
North-grew out of industry and commerce
Especially-Western New York-“Burned-Over District”
(yes, it went nationwide, but the outcomes were in the North)
Revivals-entertaining
1. Change in treatment of children (prior to this they were”seen, not
heard”/”spare rod, spoil chils”
2. Women orchestrated the revivals and the financing of them-created an
unintended sphere for women who challenged authority without intending to
do so
3. Changed in family-closer relationship between mother and child
Political Results
Direct lead to Women’s Rights Movement
Religious
Changes
1. Began as counter to deism, enlightenment, anything associated with the
French Revolution
2. Belief in the goodness of children
3. People can save themselves; salvation in own hands-no predestination
4. Set out to be entertaining
5. Church membership increased dramatically
1. Horace Mann and the Common School Movement
2. Women responsible for he religious education of their children-in their sphere
of influence-Republican Motherhood
Note: Led to Reform Movements:
1. Women’s Rights
2. Temperance/Prohibition
3. Prisons
4. Mentally Ill/Handicapped
5. Education
6. Abolition
Abolition taken care of with the Civil War and 13th Amendment
After the Civil War, the US picks up the others
Led to Communal Societies
Led to era of Associations
Educational
changes