Major leaders of The Second Great Awakening

Charles Grandison Finney: the most famous preacher of the era. He inspired emotional religious faith by using a speaking style that used a higher drama as prayer or sermon.

William Miller: led a premillennial movement in New York that predicted the Second Coming on October 22 1844, after that a non-event a romnant formed the Seventh day Adventist Church.

Peter Cartwright: was an American Methodist revivalist from the Midwest. He helped start The Second Great Awakening, and personally baptized 12,000 converts