United States Of Party Politics In The Abolition Of Negro Slavery In The Process Of Protestant Evangelical

As one of the main elements of Protestantism that is the influential denomination in modern United States, evangelical Christian has been playing a very important role since nineteen century. Through twice Great Awakenings, evangelical churches were the largest institutions in American society that shaped attitudes toward daily life, as well as to religious questions.The antebellum period was the time of American social transformation, which was transition to democratization, industrialization and urbanization. At that time, the contradictions of America were very sharp, immigrants of Catholic Churches and Protestants, slavery and anti-slavery. So it is a very important period that exerted a tremendous influence for the history of America, such as, the modern party system came into being and the issue of slavery had to be confronted.This dissertation analyses the relationship between American evangelicals and the party system and slavery to value the evangelicals Christian of America before Civil War.In the preface, the author explained the background of American Protestants and evangelicals and the economic and social development of that period. And the aim of this article wants to be arrived at. The main body of the dissertation is composed of three parts.Part one: the European resources of American evangelicals, the development of evangelicals in the United States and the doctrines of theirs.Part Two: Evangelicals and the Party politics of America. Including: the forming of the American party system and the evangelicals' attitudes toward the party and their political action.Part Three: Evangelicals and American slavery. The issue on American slavery and the different economic views of the evangelicals ofthe South and the North. The struggles of black churches were against slavery and the impact of the division of the evangelicals toward the Civil War.