The Second Great Awakening

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The Second Great Awakening

• By Alexa, Mary, Grace and Nicole

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Key People

• Charles Grandison Finney was one of the most
  important leaders if the Second Great Awakening.
  After experiencing a Dramatic religion conversion
  in 1821 Finney left is career as a Lawyer and
  began Preaching. He challenged some traditional
  Protestant beliefs telling congregations that
  each individual was responsible for their own
  salvation. He also believed that sin could be
  avoided. He held revivals emotional prayer
  Meetings. Many people converted to Christianity
  during these revivals.

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Key People

• Asahel Nettleton was an American theologian
  (study of religious faith) and pastor from
  Connecticut who was highly influential during
  the Second Great Awakening. The number of people
  converted to Christianity as a result of his
  ministry is estimated at 30,000. He most notably
  known for his participation on the New Lebanon
  Conference in 1827 during which he opposed the
  teaching of Charles Grandison Finney and Lyman
  Beecher.

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Key People

• Lyman Beecher was a traditional minister who was
  angered by Finney preaching and ideas. He along
  with several other traditional minister wanted to
  pervert Finney from holding Revivals in Boston.

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Key People

• Barton Warren Stone was an important Preacher
  during the Second Great Awakening of the early
  19th century. He was the first ordained
  Presbyterian minster then was expelled from the
  Church of his beliefs in faith as a sole
  prerequisite of salvation after Cane Ridge
  Kentucky revival. He became allied with Alexander
  Campbell forming the Restoration Movement. His
  followers were first called New Light and
  Stoneites". Later he and Campbell simply tried
  to bring people together in a simple way most in
  keeping with the Scriptures.

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Key People

• Peter Cartwright was an early American Preacher.
  Cartwright was a missionary who helped start the
  Second Great Awakening. He also personally
  baptized 12 thousand people. Cartwright was a
  minister who preached benevolence. He later
  settled in Illinois and lost against Abraham
  Lincoln for the United States Congress seat in
  1846. As a Methodist circuit riders, Cartwright
  rode around though Tennessee and Kentucky
  teaching his Methodist ways.

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Main Goal

• They (Christan people) believed if they had the
  power to reform themselves and their beliefs they
  hoped they could have the power to reform how
  Americans believed which lead to the Second
  Religious reform or also known as the Second
  Great Awakening.

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Methods

• They would do revivals for days/weeks. They made
  their own Utopian Communities trying to a
  Perfect society for themselves and others to
  live in.

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Accomplishments

• The Second Great Awakening Accomplished a renewed
  interest in religion and revival. It also
  encourage the emergence of a new denomination and
  religious practice. Also in the Appalachian
  region of Kentucky , Tennessee the revivals that
  strengthen the Baptist and a new form of
  religious camp meetings.

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The End

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