1. DO NOW
What was the First Great Awakening? What did we study at the same time as the Great Awakening? Why?

2. 513: The Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism
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3. What is a radical? Let’s come up with a definition for the whole class.
Left vs. Right
Always political? Always look like this?

4. The Second Great Awakening – 1790s-1830s
Religious revival
Preachers preached to slaves and women
gave birth to early reform movements

5. Religion Many Protestant groups
Mormons – Joseph Smith – the Book of Mormon – migrated from New York to Salt Lake City, Utah

6. Primary Source (p. 232)

7. Transcendentalists
society corrupted the individual and people are best when “self-reliant”
Ralph Waldo Emerson – essayist

8. “Self-Reliance” (p. R66-R67)
What does Emerson mean by the first line? (What I must do think)
What is the problem with conformity, according to Emerson? How is nonconformity preferable?
Define “consistency,” as Emerson uses the word. What is the problem with consistency?
How can man be “happy and strong”? Explain.

9. How do followers of the Second Great Awakening differ from Transcendentalists? How could Transcendentalism be a response to the Second Great Awakening? Explain.