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2. Growth of Protestantism

3. Burned over district

4. Second Great Awakening Lasted 1790 or so to 1840 or so From South and Southwest start where folks " preferred their whiskey straight, and their politics and religion red hot"—Augustus Longstreet Revivals: Cane Ridge, KY for example Lasted a week 23,000 attended Like Lollapalooza People got " slain in the spirit " or the " jerks "

5. Camp Meeting

6. Causes—Growth of Itinerant Preachers Democratic development Dynamic Vernacular Charismatic Critical of elites

7. Causes—Centripetal reorientation Attempt to pull people back to the church Fight against secularization

8. Causes—Organization of population Population Growth Integration of these people under “ Protestantism ” Unification and schism at the same time

9. Effects—Overall Protestant phenomenon with expanding liberalization of teaching and competitiveness between churches Class conflict Struggle for leadership of churches and religious institutions

10. Effects—Disinterested Benevolence Disinterested Benevolence: sin=selfishness, faith=action, perfection the goal By disinterested benevolence I do not mean, that a person who is disinterested feels no interest in his object of pursuit, but that he seeks the happiness of others for its own sake, and not for the sake of its reaction on himself, in promoting his own happiness. (from Lecture 1 of Charles G. Finney’s “Lectures to Professing Christians ” )

11. Effects—Reform Blur between theology and ethics: saved behaved Influences reformist impulse American Bible Society American Colonization Society American Anti-Slavery Society Temperance Women’s rights Collectively “Civil Society”

12. Schooling and the Asylum Ordering and disciplining the subject Creation of workers Rehabilitation sought Protestant Ethics

13. Slavery ’ s argument Pro-Slavery Argument Economic (slave as capital resource) Political (Calhoun and States Rights) Religious (scriptural interpretation) Constitutional

14. The status of Blacks Citizenship? Political Rights? Civil Rights?

15. Institutions and People Colonization Society William Lloyd Garrison Frederick Douglas Sojourner Truth

16. The Status of Women Split between the sexes Cult of True Womanhood Religious Piety Purity Submissiveness Domesticity Legal Status Dependent and unequal Political and legal non-existence Marriage

17. Women and Knowledge Anti-intellectualism Women not treated as if they possessed logic or reason Schooling represents fractured roles

18. What are women up against? Separate Spheres Physical, mental Anti-suffrage Fear of exploitation, corruption Misogyny Masculinization of women and feminization of men Family structure would fall apart

19. Seneca Falls Impetus in 1840 at World Anti-Slavery Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes " Declaration of Sentiments Meeting in Seneca Falls NY Met to discuss the social, civil and religious situation of women

20. Declaration of Sentiments Modeled after the Declaration of Independence Demand for women ' s rights Vote Rights Citizenship End to dependence