1. The 1st & 2nd Great Awakening & the cultural changes in 1800s America

2. 1st Great Awakening
1730s s

3. What was the Great Awakening?
Religious revival movement.
Evangelicalism-- “new birth” is the ultimate religious experience.
Followers accept that they are sinners and ask for salvation.

4. Before the Great Awakening
Before 1730s, most colonies had established religions:
Congregationalists in New England (basically Puritans)
Anglicans in New York and Southern Colonies (same as Church of England)

5. “Old Lights” vs. “New Lights”
Churches that grew as a result of the Great Awakening: Presbyterianism, Methodism, Baptism (“New Lights”)
Great Awakening challenged authority and hierarchy of established churches (“Old Lights:” Congregationalists and Anglicans).
Great Awakening said anyone could be converted or “born again”; you didn’t need traditional church leadership to decide whether or not you belong.

6. Leaders of the 1st Great Awakening
George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards

7. The Second Great Awakening
Evangelical Reform from within
Social Reform
Equality (preached to whites & blacks alike; also women)

9. 1. Women in America

11. Women in the 1800s Women’s Place
Cook, clean, care for children, take family to church
Unable to vote
Rights of a minor
Could own property, but forfeited to husband upon marriage
Could not initiate divorce
Could not sign contracts or wills
No education/schooling

12. Seneca Falls Convention (NY)
Beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement
GOAL: Suffrage (Right to Vote)
Leaders:
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony

14. 2. Prison Reform
Dorothea Dix
Rehabilitation
Care for Mentally Ill

15. 3. Education Reform Noah Webster Horace Mann Dictionary
“Education beyond all other human devices, is a great equalizer of the human condition………It prevents being poor.”
Tax Supported Schools (public schools)

17. 4. Abolition Desired an end to slavery
Based in both Religion and Resistance
Abolitionist Movement
Gradualists
Immediatists
Free Blacks