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=== Reformers === | === Reformers === | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lyman Beecher| 1820-30s Presbyterian preacher who influenced the temperance movement (anti-alcohol), promoted revivals and other Second Great Awakening movements, and supported the American Colonization Society which sought to send freed slaves back to Africa; Beecher opposed Calvinist predetermination and preached salvation through "free will"; Beecher was vehemently and publicly anti-Catholic}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Charles Finney| Second Great Awakening Protestant evangelists who led religious revivals along the Eire Canal and into Ohio, where he founded a theology department at Oberlin College; Finney promoted the democratic idea that anyone could be "saved" by Christ, as each person was "a moral free agent" who could choose salvation; }}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Charles Finney| Second Great Awakening Protestant evangelists who led religious revivals along the Eire Canal and into Ohio, where he founded a theology department at Oberlin College; Finney promoted the democratic idea that anyone could be "saved" by Christ, as each person was "a moral free agent" who could choose salvation; }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Elizabeth Cady Stanton| woman's rights activist and abolitionist who organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and primary author of the convention's Declaration of Sentiments; Stanton was among the first to promote the idea of women's right to vote (suffrage), which was controversial before the Civil War}}</ul></li> | |||
=== Transcendentalism/ Second Great Awakening === | === Transcendentalism/ Second Great Awakening === | ||