U.S. HistoryMr. Weber

Room 217

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Agenda

Objective

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

Key Terms:

• Religious Revival

• First Great Awakening

• Second Great Awakening

• Reform Impulse

• Antislavery and Abolition

• Slave Resistance and Rebellion

Religious Revivals

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.

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.

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.

Who were the Black Abolitionists?

Fredrick Douglass Sojourner TruthHarriet Tubman

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)

Comprehension check

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

Thinking in time:1492 Columbus and European conquest

1607-1700 European settlementVirginia, Mass., Jamestown

1730s and 40s 1st Great Awakening

1750s and 60s Problems with Britain

1776 Declaration of Independence

1787 Constitution

1791 Bill of Rights

1801 Marbury v. Madison

1820s and 30s 2nd Great Awakening/ Antislavery

1846 Mexican/American War

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.