Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context

1. Question

   What ideas in Charles Finney’s Lectures on Revivals of Religion (Document 11.6) might have strengthened the connection between the Second Great Awakening and the social reform movements of the nineteenth century?

2. Question

   What seem to be Frances Trollope’s main criticisms of the camp meeting in Indiana (Document 11.7)? How might Finney and other ministers have responded to those criticisms?

3. Question

   Since Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans was so popular within the United States, how might her views of women and revivalism have shaped public opinion?

4. Question

   How do the criticisms of female activism in the pastoral letter of 1837 (Document 11.9) compare with Trollope’s criticism of women at revivals?

5. Question

   How do both Elizabeth Emery and Mary Abbott (Document 11.8) and Sarah Grimké (Document 11.10) use religious principles to support women’s public role in the abolitionist movement?

• Question

  How do the arguments of Emery, Abbott, and Grimké affirm mid-nineteenth-century beliefs about the differences between men and women? In what ways do they challenge those beliefs?