Second Great Awakening By: Guadalupe Cruz, Chris Arbo, Daryl Davis, and Shae Brockington

Second Great Awakening: a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.

Perfectionism: a doctrine holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable, especially the theory that human moral or spiritual perfection should be or has been attained.

Unitarian: a person, especially a Christian, who asserts the unity of God and rejects the doctrine of the Trinity. Baptist: a member of a Protestant Christian denomination advocating baptism. only of adult believers by total immersion. Baptists form one of the largest Protestant bodies and are found throughout the world and especially in the US. Methodist: a member of a Christian Protestant denomination originated in the evangelistic movement of Charles and John Wesley and George Whitefield.

Evangelicalism: Stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation. “camp meetings”: Private meetings where people would go to get preached. People would “drink the hellfire gospel” (dancing, rolling, and barking was involved).

Peter Cartwright: Methodist preacher during the Second Great Awakening. He was a traveling Preacher. He inspired a new generation to get religious. He is also known for punching people who tried to stop his meetings.

Timothy Dwight: Started the Second Great Awakening. A preacher and poet in Fairfield, he wrote Greenfield Hill, in which was introduced a vivid description of the burning of Fairfield by the British in Later President of Yale. Abolished half-way covenant in many churches throughout New England. Sought a restoration of a "less compromised" Calvinism.

Revivalism: a tendency or desire to revive a former custom or practice. Charles G. Finney: was an American Congregationalist/Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism.

William Miller: was a Baptist preacher, from the United States, who is credited with beginning the mid-nineteenth century North American religious movement that was known as the Millerites.

Church of Latter-Day Saints: is a Christian restorationist church that is considered by its followers to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

Mormons: are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity, which began with Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. Polygamy: The practice of marriage by a man to multiple wives. Polygamy was customary among some African peoples and was practiced by many Mormons in the United States, particularly between 1840 and 1890.

Joseph Smith: an American religious leader who reported to being visited by an angel and given golden plates in 1840; the plates, when deciphered, brought about the Church of Latter Day Saints and the Book of Mormon; he ran into opposition from Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri when he attempted to spread the Mormon beliefs; he was killed by those who opposed him.

Brigham Young: A Mormon leader that led his oppressed followers to Utah in Under Young's management, his Mormon community became a prosperous frontier theocracy and a cooperative commonwealth. He became the territorial governor in Unable to control the hierarchy of Young, Washington sent a federal army in 1857 against the harassing Mormons.

New Zion: The Mormon religious community in Salt Lake City

Why join this movement?: Camp meetings led a big number of people to convert through an enthusiastic style of preaching and audience participation. Many believed that they could only be saved through the grace of God. The Second Great Awakening embraced a more optimistic view of the human condition.