Charles Grandison Finney was a major leader of the Great Awakening. By the age of 29 he converted and was the most famous preacher of his era, by inspiring religious faith. The crowd would faint and scream from the great speeches that he would speak. The religious activism was leading to the change in women's rights, schools, abolition, and slavery. Charles Finney created most of his most successful revivals in Rochester, New York. He later got the reputation of "the father of modern revivalism."

8.1 Major Leaders of the Great Awakening/ their accomplishments

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