History Chapter 12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Second great awakening | was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings. |
| Circuit riders | traveling ministers who rode horseback over regular routes and preached messages of religious revival during the Second Great Awakening |
| Francis Asbury | famous circuit-riding preacher |
| James McGready | pioneered the camp meeting revival |
| Camp meeting revival | a religious service of several days length held out doors |
| Peter Cartwright | The most famous Methodist travelling frontier preacher. He traveled around the country preaching to large groups |
| Charles G. Finney | The best known evangelist of the Second Great awakening |
| The spiritual | America's greatest contribution to the field of music |
| American Bible Society | Organization founded by Samuel J. Mills planning to put a bible in every frontier home between 1829 and 1830 |
| Princeton | A college that had been started during the Second Great Awakening |
| Yale Divinity School | A college that had been started during the Second Great Awakening |
| Adoniram Judson | The Father of American Missions |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | The Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. |
| Captain James Cook | British captain who discovered Hawaii in 1778 |
| 1820 | The date when the first group of American missionaries to Hawaii |
| Queen Kaahumanu | Liholiho's successor who did much to encourage the acceptance of Christianity among the islanders of Hawaii |
| American temperance union | A group of Christians that worked to outlaw whiskey in the united states |
| Abolition movement | Early 1800s a growing number of Americans opposed slavery began to speak out, became known as abolitionists, it was a great reform movement that they led |
| Dorothea L. Dix | investigated several insane asylums and worked to promote more humane treatment of the mentally ill |
| Five Points mission | The first settlement house which was founded in New York by Phoebe Palmer |
| YMCA | Spiritual organization meant to provide healthy activities for young workers in the cities |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Co-founded the 1848 Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York |
| Susan B. Anthony | Social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association |
| Sojourner Truth | The fake name that Isabella Baumfree named herself when she lectured against slavery in New York |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Former Unitarian minister that started the religion Transcendentalism |
| Henry David Thoreau | A Transcendentalist who spent two years communing with nature in a small cabin on the shores of Walden Pond near Concord Massachusetts and wrote a book entitled Walden. |
| Walt Whitman | American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | An American author who lived at Brook Farm for a short time and wrote the book The Blithedale Romance |
| Cults | Groups that teach salvation by works rather than salvation by grace through faith. Some of these cults were Mormonism,The Jehovah's Witness, and Christian Science. |
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