HIST 0848 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Millennialism
3 Dec 2015
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Second great awakening moral free agency anybody can choose to sin or not sin. Perfectionism would be morally perfect if you don"t sin. Millennialism if everybody doesn"t sin, then society would be perfect (charles grandison) 19th century revivals were held in urban places attended by upper-middle class (social moralism) Most of this centered on sobriety (presbyterians, and methodist. Churches) northern movement meant that you agreed with the ideals of the 2nd great awakening. Moved from temperance to abolition (it went in many directions) it in the north. The republican parry emerged in the 1850"s caught support from conservative movement. Colonization ending slavery but sending free" blacks somewhere else (liberia) William henry garrison most radical anti-slavery advocate (the. The liberty party first party designated for abolitionism. Most people despised anti-slavery groups and people supporting. Andrew jackson prevented abolition mail to get sent to the south. Radical abolitionists never attracted a huge crowd.
