The First Great Awakening By George Whitefield

The Second Great Awakening refers to a period of religious revivals that occurred in the United States in the 1830s. After this, many more Americans became Christians. The Second Great Awakening made Americans want to reform the United States. Reformers began gathering many social and political changes. There was a push to prohibit alcoholic beverages, to increase public education, to support rights for women, and to outlaw war. One of the movements to arise out of the Reform movements was the Abolition Movement which called for immediate end for slavery. Therefore, the Second Great Awakening and the reform movements that it inspired helped

The Second Great Awakening was a period of religious revival in the United States between 1790 and the 1840s. This movement brought widespread conversions, social activism, and the emergence of new Christian denominations. This wave of religious revival stimulated the establishment of many reform movements which were designed to remove the evils of society before the extremely anticipated second coming of Jesus Christ. Being that slavery was seen as one of these evils, this revival encouraged many slaves to demand their freedom.

The earliest most famous Protestant reformer, Martin Luther went to the school of Erfurt to study law in 1501, but he quickly became more interested in theology. Luther was exposed to recent humanist writings and read extensively in classical Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In 1505, he enrolled in an Augustinian monastery. He spent a decade educating and preaching and visited Rome. The Reformation was a religious uprising in Europe in the 16th century, prompted by dissatisfaction with the set Roman Catholic Church, which directed to the formulation of the Protestant branch of Christianity.

The Second Great Awakening revolved around the new concept of national reform through religious and moral changes. These changes and transitions occurred for the benefit of the country, by withdrawing the negative aspects of society such as alcohol overuse, low quality education and prisons, and most notably slavery. Religious leaders encouraged salvation and worshipping the Christian God to be best solution for successfully reforming and improving the nation’s predicaments. Religious ideas had a remarkable role constructing reform movements in the first half of the nineteenth century in behalf of religion offering the most moral and logical path towards a better society. People of the United States were in necessity of reforms, applying the religious ideas opened up new resolutions for all classes, races, and groups of people.

Commonly explored throughout her works, the idea of marriage inhibiting a woman’s freedom is the driving force behind Kate Chopin’s contextual objections to propriety. In particular, The Awakening and “The Story of an Hour” explore the lives of women seeking marital liberation and individuality. Mrs. Chopin, who was raised in a matriarchal household, expresses her opposition to the nineteenth century patriarchal society while using her personal experiences to exemplify her feminist views.

George Whitefield is an individual like no other. He’s an individual who made a mark on history. He was an average person who lived to make a major difference and would be one of the most well known individuals to take part in the Evangelical Awakening of the 1700s. It was a time when you saw God’s hand in the world like never before.

Some called it the Second Great Awakening because it “raised people’s hopes for the second coming of the Christian messiah and the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth.” (Norton, et. al., Mindtap, 10-7) With industrialization on the rise and new cities in development, many people began to take certain aspects of culture as symbols of evil. The Second Great Awakening was a way to prevent evil in American cities in the hope of creating a perfect Christian society. “Revivalists strove for large-scale conversions. Rural women, men, and children traveled long distances to camp meetings, where they heard fiery sermons preached day and night from hastily constructed platforms and tents in forests or fields.” (Norton, et. al., Mindtap, 10-7) Many people were traveling great distances to hear sermons because they were persuaded to believe that society needed to be cleansed before the messiah’s return. The most popular preachers of this revival were Lyman Beecher and Charles G. Finney. These two preachers “argued that evil was avoidable,” and anyone could be cleansed from sin. (Norton, et. al., Mindtap, 10-7a) Charles G. Finney was a law-turned-Presbyterian minister who conducted revivals in towns along the Erie Canal. Finney was most successful in conversions in New York. New York at the time was experiencing a high level of technologic change. Along with technologic advancement

God challenges people in times of hardships, however, it depends on the person if they can take upon the challenge and keep faith in God. Eliezer Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir Night, is one of these people who have to take this test. Elie demonstrates faith is tested in times of trouble through the use of character relation, change in setting and the conflicts that he witnesses.

The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement that took place in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Around the same time, the concepts of Jacksonian democracy was becoming increasingly more well known. This idea stressed the importance of the common individual. It focused on the ordinary people and what they thought about government. Jacksonian democracy also clarified that slavery is an issue. Religiously, The Second Great Awakening strongly The religious concept of earning salvation that grew popular as a result of the Second Great Awakening impacted social reforms such as the temperance and abolitionist movements, prison and education reform, and the formation of Utopian societies. The Second Great Awakening

The Great Awakening was a reaction to a decline religiousness and a laxity of morals within the Congregational Churches of New England. Travelling evangelist generated converted interest and spread the message of revival throughout the churches of Connecticut. While the Great Awakening inspired dramatic changes and growth in church membership, it also triggered divisions and conflicts in the established church. As the movement became more deep-seated and passions less controlled, the following groups which arose from a change in opinions regarding the Awakening led to the decline of the revival in Connecticut. The Great Awakening diminished around 1745 because followers could not withstand interest, though the government of the colony started regulating travelling evangelist

A) The "Great Awakening" was a religious revival. It began in Massachusetts by a pastor named Jonathan Edwards and spread the idea that doing good things and believing in God's forgiveness would help somebody get into heaven. He painted a very scary picture of hell in the minds of people, therefore influencing them to go into a life of doing good things. A man named George Whitefield preached human helplessness and God's great power. Revival meetings were very effective in evoking emotion, and sinners would profess confessions, while those who are saved would be excited, even creating a show. The Awakening was said to revitalize American religion. The Awakening focused on direct and emotive spirituality which undermined old clergy and caused

The Second Great Awakening was a period of religious revival that peaked between 1820 and 1840. Accompanied by Manifest Destiny and the Market Revolution, the awakening brought out new religious ideas to a massive audience. These religious ideas of purity, equality, and the fallacy of predestination attributed to many important reform movements, including the temperance movement, the Abolition Movement, the first wave of Feminism, and reforms within prisons.

Over time people felt that religion was dying, and not many people really had one or practiced one, people felt that they needed to revive religion and this was known as the Great Awakening. This Great Awakening started with the fundamentals of religion, and tried to bring people back to christianity. John Edwards was like the leader, he was the head preacher and explained that good salvation game from God and not from doing good. During this Great Awakening, there was another preacher who soon came along, his name was George Whitefield. George Whitefield brought emotion out of people, he was a great speaker, but

Sexual transgression and sexual exploration is one of the most highly talked about topics in today’s society. The path to sexual liberation within society begins with experimentation and exploration, followed by personal acceptance, and finally, although not always, societal acceptance. Although we have come a long way on the path of acceptance of different sexual transgressions, the stories of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Tennessee Williams’ “Vieux Carre,” and Lyle Saxon’s “The Centaur Plays Croquet” show that this type of acceptance has not always been the case. Each story plays an integral role when looking at the steps on the path to societal acceptance. Chopin 's story dives deep into the area of experimentation and exploration, whereas Saxon 's story looks more at the areas of personal acceptance, and Williams ' story lies more along the area of societal acceptance, and whether or not acceptance is always the end result.

The Second Great Wakening was a Protestant revival fervor that took place all over America staring in the early eighteen hundreds. It urged people to turn away from their sinful life and live a righteous one. It ended up giving birth to the idea that salvation in open to everyone who wants it and in doing so it led to significant changes in American culture. The religious revivals of the Second Great Awaking radically changed religion in America by making it more democratic and turning evangelical Protestantism into the largest denomination in the country, thus leading to major reform movements in American society during the mid-eighteen hundreds.