Second Great Awakening (jan 1, 1790 – jan 1, 1840)

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• Frontier preaching – westward migration
• Evangelical Protestantism
– Charles Grandson Finney
– "Burned-over" district (western and central New York)
– Circuit riders and rivals
• Baptists, Methodist
– Conversion vs. predestination
– Spiritual fevor
• Reform movements
– More female converts
• New role outside the home
– Social reform, temperance, abolition, women's rights
– Blue laws


Spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching
Evangelical

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