1. Black Abolitionist Bellwork
Which abolitionist did you print a picture of?
Answers Vary
What is a famous person or organization they worked with?
What was an action taken by this person to support the abolition movement?

2. Objective
WWBAT: Introduce the 2nd Great Awakening and the impact it had on the enslaved people and the Abolition movement

3. Interactive Notebooks
11/16/2017
2nd Great Awakening
This will be two pages

4. Second Great Awakening Background
Second Great Awakening Impacts

5. Second Great Awakening Background
Many Americans attended churches infrequently
They did not like the restrictive nature of many churches
However the vast majority of Americans WERE still Christians

6. Second Great Awakening Background
Starting in the early 1800’s there was a large number of religious revival movements which were part of the Second Great Awakening(SGA)
Revival movements happened nationwide, but started in the frontier states
Especially Kentucky
Many of these revivals preached for a return to more basic versions of Christianity
Many would also began focusing on fixing social issues as well

8. Second Great Awakening Background
This series of revivals is remembered as the Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening is characterized by massive meetings and conversions of people called revivals
Many of the preachers were animated and encouraged crowd reaction/participation

9. Second Great Awakening
Massive meeting were called Camp Meeting
Often these camps would form into temporary towns

10. Quote from an attendee of the Cane Ridge, Kentucky revival meeting
“The noise was like the roar of Niagara. The vast sea of human beings seemed to be agitated as if by a storm. I counted seven ministers, all preaching at one time, some on stumps, others on wagons ... Some of the people were singing, others praying, some crying for mercy. A peculiarly strange sensation came over me. My heart beat tumultuously, my knees trembled, my lips quivered, and I felt as though I must fall to the ground.”

12. Second Great Awakening
Western/Central N.Y. became known was the “Burned Over District” because of the success of the SGA
A majorly successful preacher created the term by claiming there was no "fuel" (unconverted population) left over to "burn" (convert)

14. Major Leaders Charles Finney John Wesley (founder of the Methodist)
Lyman Beecher
Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. Second Great Awakening
One major church the developed out of the Burned Over District was Joseph Smith’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(Mormons)
After meeting resistance in multiple different locations the Mormons eventually settled in then Mexican controlled Utah

17. Second Great Awakening Background
The new evangelical movement placed greater emphasis on humans' ability to change their situation for the better
Many of the movements resisted the idea that salvation could only be gained from dependency and loyalty to a church

18. Second Great Awakening Background
Movement preached salvation was open to all human beings
Embraced a more optimistic view of the human condition

19. Second Great Awakening Impacts
Religious movements taught that simply avoiding sins was not enough for salvation
Good Christians began to be expected to help improve the world around them and the state of people they encountered
Led to an age of reform movements in education, mental health, alcohol, women’s rights, abolition, ect

20. Second Great Awakening Impacts
Many of the revival movements of the SGA encouraged active and visible female participation
Many black American were encouraged to begin seeking equality because of the SGA
This is a drastically departure from U.S. society at the time

21. Second Great Awakening
The revivalists generally did not challenge slavery, but they preached to everyone, regardless of race
Slave owners initially resisted evangelicals preaching to their bondpeople
A few slave owners came to consider it their Christian duty to teach their slaves about the Bible.

22. Second Great Awakening Impacts
Black ministers preached against slavery at their churches based on messages of equality in the Bible/Christian Teachings
Declared slavery a sin against god
Warned that any nation that condoned slavery would suffer divine punishment
Churches became major meeting places for both enslaved and free Blacks

24. Second Great Awakening Impacts
Black churches were heavily involved in the Abolition movement
Published narratives/newspapers, hosted speakers, and eventually supported Underground Railroad

25. John Lewis Krimmel, Black People's Prayer Meeting, watercolor, ca
John Lewis Krimmel, Black People's Prayer Meeting, watercolor, ca. 1811, depicting a Methodist service in Philadelphia

26. 2nd Great Awakening Bellwork
What are three adjectives you would use to describe revival meetings in the 2nd Great Awakening?
Answers Vary
What groups were inspired and encouraged to fight for greater rights/equality by the 2nd Great Awakening?
Women, Free Blacks, and Enslaved people

27. Objective
WWBAT: Analyze primary sources relating to the 2nd Great Awakening and find evidence of how the SGA supported social reforms

28. Second Great Awakening Sources
You will be working in small groups to look at primary sources relating to the 2nd Great Awakening
You group will be responsible for reading and analyzing seven sources relating to the 2nd Great Awakening
While you are reading these sources you will be responsible for completing the questions that accompany the documents in complete sentences

29. Second Great Awakening Sources
After you have read these documents and answered the accompanying questions you will be responsible for contributing information to a chart on the board
You will need to contribute to the chart that will be displayed on the board
On a separate sheet of paper you will need to create and contribute each of the following:
One reason why 2nd Great Awakening meetings/revivals were so popular (THIS WILL BE WRITTEN ON THE BOARD)
Supported with a quote from one of the documents
3 ways that the 2nd Great Awakening Movement supported either Women’s Rights or Abolition (ONE WILL BE WRITTEN ON THE BOARD)
EACH supported with quotes from one of the document

30. Why were 2nd Great Awakening meetings/revivals were so popular?
Ways that the 2nd Great Awakening Movement supported either Women’s Rights or Abolition

31. Why were 2nd Great Awakening meetings/revivals were so popular?
Ways that the 2nd Great Awakening Movement supported either Women’s Rights or Abolition