History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1250 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Temperance and Finney
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The idea
The middle class promoted temperance, meaning abstinence from alcohol, and followed Protestant ministers such as Charles Grandison Finney.
In practice
Finney preaching that all people possessed free moral agency and could bring about their own salvation.
Where people slip
A doctrine that a person makes their own fate matched the economic experience of a class that believed it had risen by effort.
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