DO NOW What was the First Great Awakening? What did we study at the same time as the Great Awakening? Why?
513: The Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism 12/8
What is a radical? Let’s come up with a definition for the whole class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_TKI9QfmI8 Left vs. Right Always political? Always look like this?
The Second Great Awakening – 1790s-1830s Religious revival Preachers preached to slaves and women gave birth to early reform movements
Religion Many Protestant groups Mormons – Joseph Smith – the Book of Mormon – migrated from New York to Salt Lake City, Utah
Primary Source (p. 232)
Transcendentalists society corrupted the individual and people are best when “self-reliant” Ralph Waldo Emerson – essayist
“Self-Reliance” (p. R66-R67) What does Emerson mean by the first line? (What I must do . . . think) What is the problem with conformity, according to Emerson? How is nonconformity preferable? Define “consistency,” as Emerson uses the word. What is the problem with consistency? How can man be “happy and strong”? Explain.
How do followers of the Second Great Awakening differ from Transcendentalists? How could Transcendentalism be a response to the Second Great Awakening? Explain.