1. U.S. History Mr. Weber Room 217

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4. Objective 11.3.2 Analyze the great religious revivals and the leaders involved in them, including the First Great Awakening, the Second Great Awakening…

5. Key Terms: Religious Revival First Great Awakening Second Great Awakening Reform Impulse Antislavery and Abolition Slave Resistance and Rebellion

6. Religious Revivals

7. What was the First Great Awakening? Religious awakening, rebirth. 1730s and 1740s in North American colonies. Congregationalists and Presbyterians Jonathan Edwards: puritan roots but emphasized power of individual and personal religious experience. Fire and Brimstone. “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” by Edwards.

8. What was the Second Great Awakening? A second religious revival that gave a moral impulse to efforts to reform society (1800- 1830s). Led by evangelical preachers Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher. Famous tent revivals where people would be saved. Belief in individual moral agency – perfectionist impulse: temperance (no alcohol), bible societies, prison and mental health reform, antislavery.

9. What was the antislavery movement? Groups of people working to bring slavery to an end before the Civil War (1860) were called abolitionists. White abolitionists inspired by the Second Great Awakening (the conversion experience). African American abolitionists. Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth.

10. Who were the Black Abolitionists? Fredrick DouglassSojourner TruthHarriet Tubman

11. What was Slave Resistance and Rebellion? Everyday forms of resistance. Poisoning the master and coded stories. Revolt: Haitian Revolution (1791) Gabriel Prosser (1800) Denmark Vesey (1822) Nat Turner (1831)

12. Comprehension check Write a quick summary (5-7 min) of your notes. Include the following: Religious revival 1 st Great Awakening 2 nd Great Awakening Antislavery impulse Abolitionists Slave resistance and rebellion

13. Thinking in time: 1492Columbus and European conquest 1607-1700European settlement Virginia, Mass., Jamestown 1730s and 40s1 st Great Awakening 1750s and 60sProblems with Britain 1776Declaration of Independence 1787Constitution 1791Bill of Rights 1801Marbury v. Madison 1820s and 30s2 nd Great Awakening/ Antislavery 1846Mexican/American War

14. Independent Reading Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States. “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God.” Independent reading pp.149-169. The Mexican/American War Reading process: beginning, middle, end Cornell notes.