1. Revival!
By Chase Mesaros

2. It’s Happening!
Revivalism during the early 19th century is often referred as the Second Great Awakening.
Revivalism attempted to address the security of a person’s soul to God and reveal to them the good news that Jesus had rose from the dead to forgive their sins.
The conditions that created this change was a strong movement of the Protestant form of Christianity that invoked a person’s free will to choose God or themselves.

3. Early Attempts
Earlier reform attempts include the First Great Awakening
More focused on doom and gloom
The Cane Ridge Revival
Led by Barton Stone

4. Solutions More inviting form of Christianity
Focused on the spreading Protestant movement
Individual chooses their own path
Education
Equality for all people, including African-Americans
Goals were to go forth and create disciples
Wanted to shake a nation

5. Important People Charles G Finney
Informal style, more direct, less formal
Studied law
Aggressive Evangelism, equality for women and African-Americans
Lyman Beecher
Eventually agreed on social reform
Against Catholics and Unitarians
Believed in the Holy Trinity
Lorenzo Dow
Believed to have preached to over a million people
Autobiography second best-selling book in the US
Traveled over 10,000 miles

6. In Their Own Words….
“A revival may be expected when the christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival”... Charles G. Finney
“No great advance has been made in science,politics, or religion without controversy” Lyman Beecher
“You will be damned if you do, and you will be damned if you don’t” Lorenzo Dow

7. Societal Responses Society generally was swept up in the movement
Evangelists drew large crowds
The Bible became the number one bestseller
Baptist, Mormon, and many other factions came to life
Generally Accepted
Some who opposed started their own factions
Splintered the Protestant Whole
Different versions of gospel
Started talk on social reform
Woman and African-Americans included

8. Achievements Converted Millions to Christ Bible became a bestseller
Kick started more attention on social reform
Many interpretations of Christianity
Colleges were soon temples of prayer

9. Related To……. Abolitionist movement Educational Reform Civil War
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
Population Growth

10. Movements Today Billy Graham Crusades Bible study groups Small groups
Azusa Pacific Revival

11. Significance
Donald Scott, from the humanities center at Queens College stresses the Awakening as a social movement that brought about institutional order as all the religious sects sprang. The different institutions provided more voice among the lower tier in society and started social reform movements.
Tony Cauchi suggests that the Revivalism sparked lawless places into God-fearing and welcome places that were completely renewed.

12. Bibliography www.ushistory.org/us/22c.asp
archive.constantcontact.com/fs155/ /archive/ html
revival-library.org/pensketches/revivals/overview.html
nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nevansoc.htm
"Lyman Beecher." BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, January authors/l/lyman_beecher.html