2 nd Great Awakening Objective 2.05/2.06

Causes  Church attendance was greatly weakening  Growth of scientific knowledge and rationalism  Began in Kentucky, spread all over, especially in frontier areas

Basic Message  Readmit God and Christ into daily lives  Delivered through revivals  Emotional sermons  Given outside  Could last for months  Leader—Charles Grandison Finney, a Presbyterian minister

Effects  Nationalism  Everyone coming together  Market Economy Growth  People more disciplined, working harder, and not drinking  Increased Democracy  Individual control over salvation

Growth of Religious Groups  Methodist and Baptist membership grew most  Rationalist Unitarianism  Rejected idea of Jesus being son of God  Name = unity with God, not trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit

 Unitarian Universalism  Universal salvation of souls  Rejected the idea of Hell  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints  a.k.a. Mormons  Began by Joseph Smith, after his murder, Brigham Young became leader