HIST 15100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Southern Sociological Society, Friendly Society, Egalitarianism
How did each of these five aspects of nineteenth-century American life (western expansion,
immigration, religious reform, industrial capitalism, and slavery) change the United States? How
did those changes take place? What ways have those changes impacted the present-day?
YAWP:
Religion
a succession of religious revivals collectively known as the Second Great Awakening remade the
nation’s religious landscape
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The Second Great Awakening emerged in response to powerful intellectual and social currents
According to the text, these changes took place "in response to powerful intellectual and
social currents"
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revivals also provided a unifying moral order and new sense of spiritual community for
Americans struggling with the great changes of the day
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Spiritual egalitarianism
Alligned with the growing democracy in the US
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This meant, for example, that a twenty-year-old man could go from working in a mill to
being a full-time circuit-riding preacher for the Methodists practically overnight
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Left an impact that is still seen in the United States through different religions and many
different beliefs and practices
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Religions changed domestic norms like mormons marrying more than one person, which can is
not as common now but still impacted
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Women could speak in church meetings
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Voluntary benevolent societies exploded in number to tackle these issues
Led by ministers and dominated by middle-class women, voluntary societies printed and
distributed Protestant tracts, taught Sunday school, distributed outdoor relief, and
evangelized in both frontier towns and urban slums
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People opened their minds to new ideas and listened to what other people had to say which we
still brought to modern day america
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Southern religions thought that "God himself had selected Africans for bondage"
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Enslaved people practiced their own form of christianity
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Slavery
The revivalist doctrines of salvation, perfectionism, and disinterested benevolence led many
evangelical reformers to believe that slavery was the most God-defying of all sins and the most
terrible blight on the moral virtue of the United States
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Week 9+10
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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Document Summary
Religion a succession of religious revivals collectively known as the second great awakening remade the nation"s religious landscape. The second great awakening emerged in response to powerful intellectual and social currents. According to the text, these changes took place "in response to powerful intellectual and social currents" revivals also provided a unifying moral order and new sense of spiritual community for. Americans struggling with the great changes of the day. Alligned with the growing democracy in the us. This meant, for example, that a twenty-year-old man could go from working in a mill to being a full-time circuit-riding preacher for the methodists practically overnight. Left an impact that is still seen in the united states through different religions and many different beliefs and practices. Religions changed domestic norms like mormons marrying more than one person, which can is not as common now but still impacted. Voluntary benevolent societies exploded in number to tackle these issues.
