1. The Second Great Awakening
Crash Course: Market Revolution

2. Warm Up
How does the diagram reflect the values of the Second Great Awakening?

3. The Second Great Awakening
1790s – 1830s
Protestant revival movement
Increased the number of Baptists & Methodists
Believers thought a new age of humanity was beginning -millennialism

4. Revivals & camp meetings were popular in the west
‘Burned over’ district of western NY
Cane Ridge, KY
TN, Southern OH,
Stimulated reform movements
The nation must be free from the evils of society before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ

5. Most reform movements were started by Congregationalists
Expressed the values of white, Protestant, middle class, northeast urban culture
Benevolent Empire
Worked to institutionalize charity & battle social evils in a systematic way
Major Reform Movements
Abolition
Temperance
Women’s Rights*
Asylum(Hospital)
Prisons
Education

7. Cultural Conflicts Reform often limited freedom & diversity
Immigration
Between , millions settle permanently; majority:
Irish in the northeast, NY & Boston
Germans, Midwest states
Most were Catholic
Growth of Catholic Churches
Acceptance of alcohol
Irish were typically illiterate; didn’t want to send children to public schools
Church (Pope) was more important than American political leaders
Gives rise to Nativism
Mob violence of unemployed natives vs. Irish
Publication of anti-Catholic stories
Anti-immigration laws advocated

8. The Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk: A Narrative of Her Sufferings in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal
The Superior now informed me that having taken the black veil, it only remained that I should swear the three oaths customary on becoming a nun…I must be informed that one of my great duties was to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

9. Complete with your team
Description of Document
Reform promotes democratic Ideals
-Explain how
Reform limits participation in society –Explain How A B C D E F G H I