History Department      

History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – September 28, 2005  

Expansion & Consolidation in the “Middle Period”

(Corrigan, Ch. 6)  

TERMS TO KNOW:  

  1. “Initial gloom” about religion in the 1790s.
  2. Timothy Dwight
  3. Lyman Beecher
  4. Nathaniel Taylor
  5. Cane Ridge revival
  6. “Burned Over District” (from the class presentation)
  7. Charles Finney
  8. “new measures”
  9. New York Missionary Society
  10. Abby Kelley
  11. voluntary societies
  12. “disinterested benevolence”
  13. “benevolent empire”
  14. Mary Lyon
  15. William Carey
  16. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

QUESTIONS:  

  1. Think of the CONSEQUENCES of the Second Great Awakening – list at least three.  How did these three shape American society?
  2. How would you explain what happened at Cane Ridge?  What sorts of factors contributed to what happened there?  

 

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