First Great Awakening:
• 1730s-1740s
• Credited founder: Jonathan Edwards (remember Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?)
Based on Puritan/Congregationalist ideals
o Northampton, Massachusetts
o Preached personal salvation
o Discussed repentance for sins (why? Remember “declension”?)
• Other major supporter: George Whitefield (revivalist, travels through the colonies)
o More emotional, revival-like sermons and preaching
o Influences the south (slaveholders participate; try to prevent slaves from attending)
• Influence of the “backcountry” – non-wealthy colonists living further west, take new revivalism
to heart and form new sects (remember the significance of this group on Early American
History)
Second Great Awakening:
• Early 1800s; usually 1810s to as late as the 1840s
• Most known leader: Charles Grandison Finney (has appeared in related DBQ essays)
• Directly influenced by increasing political participation of common citizens
• Plays a direct role in the antebellum reform movements, especially abolitionism (but also
including temperance, prison reform, and women’s rights – remember the Mock Exam FRQ?)
• Popular in the backcountry; especially the southern Appalachian regions
• Again, slaveholders tried to prevent slaves from attending; eventually had to come up with
Christian reasons for slavery
• Role of the Second Great Awakening on the frontier? As people move away from traditional
homelands, they must search for a sense of community
• This is really where newer sects gain increased membership: Methodists, Baptists
• Also, very different sects emerge: Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists
The textile industry
was revolutionized by the invention of Northrop automatic
loom which was given the name after Henry James Northrop <span>who invented the shuttle-charging mechanism. </span>
A loom is something which is used to weave cloth. It has many
forms like Back strap loom,
Warp-weighted loom, Drawloom, Handloom,
Powerloom etc.
"Adam Smith" would most likely agree with this statement, since it was Smith who argued for these types of innovations in capitalism in his book "The Wealth of Nations".
Anyone willing to work on and improve the land. D. The Homestead Act
He based his strategy on the strategy of his enemies as a lot of generals do. So "he revised it based on the strategy of the British" is your answer. 7th grade American History?
