American Romanticism and the Second Great Awakening 1800-1860

By BradyMarekStiff

  • Cane Ridge camp meeting

    One of the first and most famous camp meetings of the Second Great Awakening

  • African Methodist Episcopal Church

    Richard Allen and others formed the African Methodist Episcopal Church in response to unequal treatment from white members of the church

  • Charles Finny's Rochester Revival

    An important camp meeting held by Charles Finny that brought increased revivalism and conversions in the New York area.

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Deadliest slave revolt in which over 60 whites were killed by black slaves protesting slavery

  • First Latter Day Saints church

    Joseph smith founded the first Mormon church in Kirtland, Ohio.

  • Death of Joseph Smith

    As a result of persecution and conflict over the years, an angry mob broke into Smith's jail cell and killed him.

  • Episcopal church divides

    Due to disputes over the morals of slavery, the church split into two denominations, the northern banning slavery and the southern allowing it to continue

  • Southern Baptist convention

    Created after the divide between Episcopal church into north and south, and is today the largest protestant denomination in America

  • Mormons move to Utah

    After facing relentless persecution in the eastern United States, Brigham Young led the Mormon people to Utah, calling the land a Mormon Zion

  • First wave of feminism

    The 72 year long struggle to obtain the right to vote for women begins in 1848 with the first wave of feminism

  • The first Buddhist temples are built

    Immigrants from China and Japan build Buddhist temples as they search for work in Hawaii and California