HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: William Lloyd Garrison, Transcendentalism, Henry David Thoreau
19 Nov 2017
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Emotional teaching to bring religion back into people"s lives. people began to be. Charles finney -> can take large credit in getting the 2nd great awakening -> Self-perfection -> individual free will everyone can control their own destiny -> message to people to perfect themselves and go out and teach others to be a perfect human and control their own lives. 19th century -> radical religious movements -> communitarian believers the new millennium religion -> able to be successful in craftsmanship and worked together religion -> smith"s picture proposed unification. Religious movement that wa radical and hated on -> mormons -> joseph smith led the. Smith -> arrested for disturbing the peaces. Popular reading- bible, how to guides and gothic romances. Church groups began to grow and get committees that helped the town. During the jacksonian era, many more movements were taking place -> they were all looking to bring america together to make it better.
