The American Reform Movement

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The American Reform Movement

• Religion and Reform Reshape America

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The Second Great Awakening

• What is Reform?
• Health, Education, Tax Reform etc.
• The 2nd Great Awakening (1790-1830)
• Rejected predestination
• Salvation (heaven) individuals responsibility
• 1800 1 in 15 Americans was a member of a church
• 1850 1 in 6 Americans was a member of a church

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The Second Great Awakening

• Revivals
• Outdoor religious meetings
• Day
• Bible study preachers
• Evenings
• hellfire brimstone sermons
• 5,000 attend

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SGA Reform

• SGA individual responsibility
• No more predestination
• Salvation Individual Actions
  Good Works
• Why would SGA lead to
  reform?
• Salvation requires good works
• Participating in Reform Movement good works

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