1. Second Great Awakening Revival Meeting

2. The “Burned-Over” District in Upstate New York

3. Camp Meetings: religious, socialization, or both?

4. Reverend Peter Cartwright:
His father, like many Rev. War
vets, had moved the family from VA
in the late 1700s to settle in KY
Became a Methodist minister at
a young age (17), and began the
life of traveling and preaching that
would bring him into Lincoln’s
orbit.
Over a twenty-year period, he
would be one of Abe’s primary rivals
in central Illinois

5. Denominations Prevailing in the Second Great Awakening:
Presbyterians preserve Calvinism on the frontier
Baptists and their “farmer-preachers”
move from community to community
Methodists, with circuit-riders
like Peter Cartwright and the
emphasis on “classes,” flourish

6. The Rise of Popular Religion
In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America, I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country… Religion was the foremost of the political institutions of the United States.exi
--Alexis de Tocquevilles de Tocqueville, 1832
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7. Utopians (non-religious) Religious Perfectionists
The Mother of 19th Century Reform
Movements:
Abolition and the early Women’s Rights Movements would be monumental; those who would lead the way in those areas also tended to fight for improvement in other areas:
Utopians (non-religious)
Temperance
Education
Asylum & Penal Reform
Religious Perfectionists