The Second Great Awakening:

 

Began around 1800: second revival of faith and emotionalism\

 

Began in universities that were controlled by evangelical denominations: Yale and Andover

 

Frontier was swept by religious fervor in “camp meetings” which enforced a sense of community for frontier people and was characterized by mass excitement, the first took place in Logan County Kentucky

 

Baptists and Methodists gained most because of their simple doctrine and church organization (locally organized, each congregation was its own highest authority)

 

Methodists most effectively used the “circuit rider”:

        Francis Asbury, Peter Cartwright,James MacGready

 

Western New York (Buffalo to Utica) became known as “the burned over district” as revivalists such as Charles Grandison Finney (a Presbyterian) continued to shower it with “fire and brimstone”; he later became president of Oberline College in Ohio, a hotbed of reform and abolition

 

Joseph Smith Jr. (a product of Palmyra NY) created Mormonism which grew, was persecuted and finally taken to Utah via the efforts of Brigham Young

 

Also millennialism (7th day adventist) grew from the “burned over district”

 

Effects of the Second Great Awakening:

 

New divisions between newer more evangelical sects and older more orthodox groups

 

Effected all sections of the country, but spurred social reform only the north and northwest

 

Creation of new religions indirectly resulted from this: Mormonism, Millenialism