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Second Great Awakening
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Second Great Awakening | Religious revival that emerged in the early 1800s that focused on individual empowerment and self-determination as backlash against America’s growing secularism and rationalism. |
| Timothy Dwight | Reverend and president of Yale College who helped spark the Second Great Awakening through his sermons on the opportunity for salvation for all people. |
| Charles Finney | Presbyterian minister from the Second Great Awakening known for his hell and brimstone sermons, similar to Johnathon Edwards, who preached that all could be saved through faith and good works. |
| Camp Meetings (Revivals) | Large religious gatherings, typically held outdoors, that attracted thousands because of the popular and dramatic preachings of various ministers. |
| Millennialism | Popular Christian religious belief of the early to mid 1800s that the world was about to end with the second coming of Jesus that continued as a new Christian denomination (Seventh-Day Adventists). |
| Mormons | Religious group founded by Joseph Smith in New York in 1830 that faced persecution for their beliefs and continued moving westward until finally settling in Utah. |
| Joseph Smith | Founder of the Mormon Church (now known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) who led his followers westward and was murdered in Illinois by a local mob for his religious beliefs. |
| Brigham Young | Mormon leader who took over leadership of the Mormon Church after Joseph Smith was murdered and led the Mormons to Utah to found New Zion. |
| New Zion | Settlement founded by the Mormons near Great Salt Lake when they arrived in Utah after fleeing persecution in the eastern United States. |