The Market Revolution brought numerous changes in the United States. The creation of factories meant that employees needed less expertise in order to get a job and there were more employment prospects for people. However, because of this new method of working, people's lifestyles are also altered. Many Americans were no longer attending church on a regular basis, and the new developments in technology and economy also caused cultural disruption. As a result, there was a decline in religion. In order to address this, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening that emphasized the importance of free choice and an intimate relationship with God, inspiring individuals to pursue religious …show more content…
The Second Great Awakening’s religious ideas had a major influence on the Temperance movement. During the Second Great Awakening, people desired to convert non-Christians to Christianity and did so by emphasizing the value of devotion to God. An example of this is in document 4, where Finney states in a newspaper article that Christianity will bring tremendous benefits and purify the world of sin. His purpose for stating this is to reach out to non-Christians for them to understand the importance of reaching out to God to be forgiven for their sins, this would make them more likely to convert to Christians. The Second Great Awakening was intended to establish a flawless society in which no one had any sins, this sparked the Temperance movement. Around this time, each person was consuming tremendous amounts of alcohol. The consumption of alcohol was considered a sin and in order to stop this …show more content…
During this time many people wanted to continue with slavery and treat others inferior. However, in the sermons given out about Chirstianity people spread the message that everyone is equal to God which is why slavery should be abolished. In document 3, Walker talks about the importance of being free and reaches out to people to become abolitionists and to slaves to fight for their freedom. This is significant because the author wants to help abolish slavery due to all of the suffering slaves have gone through and he does this to support the idea that everyone is the same and that they should show God that they can fight for their freedom. This shows that the religious ideas of the Second Great Awakening did have a great impact in the slavery abolition movements because due to the sermons and the idea that everyone is equal in God’s perspective many people were influenced to become abolitionists and help end slavery. Some slavery abolitionists were women that made newspapers and gave out sermons to support the idea that slavery should end. However, during this time no one paid attention to women since everyone believed they should not work in ‘challenging’ jobs that have to do with politics and economy. They believed in the “Cult of Domesticity '' because during the Market Revolution everyone expected men to work in factories and women to stay
Due to revivals the United states in the 1790 's-1830 's changed religion throughout the whole country. Which created the Second Great Awakening , this transformation changed Americans religon. In the beginning of the Revolution the largest denomomations were Puritan churches aslo called Congregationalist. Anglicans were also included,and Quakers. Methodism and Baptists, were also becoming a fast-growing relgions in the nation.
In an essay on the subject of religious revivals, Nathan O. Hatch, among other remarks on the empowerment and different directions of the revival time, states that, “the wave of popular religious movements that broke upon the United States in the half century after independence did more to Christianize America society than anything before or since.” Collectively, these revivals are often referred to as the Second Great Awakening. Revivalists across the country called upon others to renounce “evil” things, such as drinking and using swear words. They hoped such positive behavioral changes would bring about Christ’s Second Coming and the millennium of peace to follow it. When one such revivalist, Charles Finney, arrived in Rochester, he found a relatively young town bursting with men of the working class and a government aimed toward outlawing sinful activities.
David Walker says, “whites have always been an unjust...set of beings, always seeking power and authority,” to call for slaves to revolt against their masters. Angelina Grimke builds upon Walker’s position, saying “the opposition of slavery has done its deadliest work in the hearts of our citizens,” to illustrate how slavery has caused nothing positive to the nation and is only diverting the country apart. The Northerners also had the interpretation of “holding slaves is morally wrong...upon precepts taught in the bible, and takes (the bible) as the standard of morality and religion” (Slavery and the Bible,1850) to further question the justification of holding slaves and how the morals of Christians in the North aided by the rise of the abolition movement during the Second Great Awakening. The morality of slavery was being questioned in the United States during the nineteenth century because of the denial of happiness and human rights among those under the rule of southern plantation owners. Reformers expressed their point of views, and many northerners began to join the abolition movement, however their attempts couldn’t influence the southerners and slavery continued on plantations in the southern
During the Second Great Awakening, many missionaries worked alongside the spiritual African-Americans and because of this soon came around to the belief that the African-Americans were people. The church was then challenged to share this belief and convince the common people that African-Americans were people who shared equal rights. One effort to prove the humanity of the African-Americans was a movement to point out the accomplishments of well-educated African-Americans; which proved that, given the opportunity to educate themselves, they were just as smart and well accomplished as whites. One excellent example of this is speaker, novelist, and abolitionist Frederick Douglas, who, while being a fine example of the concept, also advocated it wholeheartedly (Doc
The next chapter highlights the gendered division of labor and the difficulty to keep a family as a slave. Chapter six and seven moves on to the eighteenth century and shows how women have improved in areas such as more political participation and increasing social class of
Evangelical preachers, in keeping with their social doctrine that targeted the disadvantaged in society, attempted to convert slaves and Native Americans. Prior to the Awakening no one had made a serious effort at their conversion for fear that Christianity was “a step towards freedom” (357). Slaves attended evangelical sermons en masse, wary of the Anglican ministers who supported their masters. Evangelical Christianity offered moments of release and equality from the perpetual suffering of a slave’s life. This did not mean, however, that the evangelists actively opposed slavery.
Richard Kaplan also said, “the theological belief in the potential mutability, indeed perfectibility, of people also encouraged a reforming attitude toward social institutions. Humanity and earthly society were not inherently sinful and, thus, could and should be reformed.” With the new quantity of religious people, the belief that there should no longer be sinful or unjust things grew tremendously. With this belief, people began to believe that things that needed to be reformed, should be reformed. The Second Great Awakening sparked a nationwide wave of reform movements that had a huge impact on American society throughout the 19th century.
The results of Protestant Reformation had came out to be the developments of individual values toward religion tolerance. As the heretics endured prosecution, more people yearned for an acknowledgement for religious freedom and
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Analysis Religion has unquestionably shaped the structure of the United States from the founding of the first colonies on the eastern coast to modern political disputes. The roots of its grasp upon american society can be tied back to settlements in the east for the purpose of establishing strict religious communities. Although many continued to hold onto older religious beliefs as the colonies progressed, american colonies began to drift from the stern ideals which were held by the colony’s founders. In fear of allowing the colonies to become involved in “worldly matters”, movements such as the Great Awakening arose. In this campaign, many ministers sought to instill fear upon those they believed to be
There were also steps to achieve religious conversion. This included a need to reach prostitutes, alcoholics, and atheists because of the growing need for religious conversion (Document B). This document, as well as most of the documents, reflects the impact of the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening refers to a period of religious revivals at occurred in the United States in the 1830s.
Religion and its relationship to slavery is a contradictive subject, whether it was forced upon slaves or was a form of hope and freedom is still commonly debated about to this day. However, these individuals were devoted Christians in the abolitionist movement who all
The Second Great Awakening’s Impact on Abolitionism in the North The Second Great Awakening during the late 18th and 19th centuries sparked many reform movements in the United States. The new enlightenment age fostered scientific thought that often challenged traditional Christian practices. Principles of “Deism” and “Unitarianism” were religious philosophies that focused on free will, reason, and science.
The second great awakening had a huge impact on the growing opposition to slavery in 1776 to 1852. The second great awakening was a religious revivalism that protected church morals and promoted abolition. During the second great awakening many white americans
The market revolution, which started in 1815, transformed worker lives, and improved the nation vastly; although it also dropped the economy as well. The traditional market, which was based upon power generated by animals and water, was slow in activities such as transportation. The growing nation underwent peace, which then catalyzed the reform of the organization of the economy. As such, transportation was heavily improved upon, along with manufacturing, banking, and commercial law. However, there were also two panics during the time that occurred that led to many Americans who were anxious and uncertain about working in the country.
A specific frame of mind, the protestant ethic frame of mind, played a role in the emergence of