Materialism Vs Transcendentalism

Once it became the 18th century, the Unitarians and Universalists in New England, ended up contesting against the notion of predestination and believed that all individuals were capable of good deeds and were able to receive salvation. When they were able to preach the conception of salvation by free will, the preachers of the Second Great Awakening, promoted interest among Protestants in frontier revivals. The Methodist and Baptist, were able to gain a lot more followers which especially included African Americans and women. They held some of the largest meetings and a lot of the times the meetings got way out of hand. The excitement of mass went throughout the individuals and made them act ways that they didn’t typically act. Women were
Transcendentalist a lot of the times were against religious orthodoxy and rationalism of Unitarianism. They were also very unreasonable and believed that reality isn’t something that can be seen or touched but more so included the unexplored realms of the mind. They want everyone to look within themselves and not follow the word of what the preachers were saying when it came to spiritual insights. Transcendentalist were very influential when it came to writers who created American Literature, that separated them away from everyone
One of the first organized movements, occurred in 1816 when the formation of the American Colonization Society took place. This society focused on returning those slaves that were free back to Africa. Some of the supporters of this movement included John Marshall and James Madison. The supporters of this movement either wanted to get rid of those who were free in their country and return them back from where they came from or really were against slavery. During the times of the 1830, abolitionism took place, in which individuals demanded an end to slavery immediately. Some protesters called for social and political equality, regardless of if there were disagreements over how things went. Abolitionist efforts that took place in the North ended up causing the whites in the South, to react in a strong way as they started to become scared for their safety and guilty of interfering. African Americans that were located in the North, ended up joining together with the abolitionist and creating the, Underground