Major Leaders of the Great Awakening/ their accomplishments

-Charles Grandison Finney: led many powerful revivals and traveled the country on horseback delivering his messages and belief to people
-Richard Allen: began the Methodist Espicopal Church for African Americans
-Ralph Waldo Emerson: a New England writer who led a group practicing transcendentalism
-Henry David Thoreau: put the idea of self-reliance into transcendentalism by living alone for two years on the coast of Concord and helped lead to forming civil disobedience
-George Ripley: formed utopian village called Brook Farm in 1841
-Dorothea Dix: persuaded nine countries to change public hospitals and asylums for the mentally ill, because they were abused by many