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Second Great Awakening Worksheet

Instructions: In addition to answering the questions below, be sure to click on and examine accompanying images.

1. What did evangelicalism (in the form of religious revival) emerge as between the administrations of Jefferson and Lincoln?

2. What “blasphemously obscene” thing did Thomas Paine assert in his “Age of Reason”?

3. What primary religious innovation was developed by Kentucky revivalists?

4. How did the camp meeting plan by Benjamin Latrobe handle men, women and black worshippers? What was the eventual result of this?

5. Why did Latrobe erect a boarded enclosure filled with straw at is camp revival?

6. Why were many converted Methodist and Baptist blacks disappointed in their white-run churches? How did forceful black leaders deal with this disappointment?

7. What qualities did the Shakers share with the Quakers?

8. What term is used for the area in New York where Joseph Smith grew up and why did they call it that?

9. From what did Smith say he took his revelations from and what book did he publish in 1830?

10. What time period and place does the Book of Mormon say it deals with?

11. Who is Lehi, where was he supposed to have come from and what great thing is said to have happened to him?

12. Why do you think the Mormon Church was so persecuted from its inception?

13. What happened in Navoo, Illinois to Joseph Smith and his brother?

14. Who led the Mormons away from Navoo and where did they settle?

15. What were Benevolent Societies aiming to accomplish by handing out millions of pamphlets in America?

16. How did a missionary society try to convert seamen in the 1840s?

17. What concerned the evangelical community about westward expansion?

18. Explain how the great Alexis de Tocqueville perceived the importance of religion to the new republic of the United States.

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