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A Brief Overview of the 2nd Great Awakening 

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A Brief Overview of the 2nd Great Awakening 

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The 2nd Great Awakening established reform movements to address injustices and alleviate suffering from the Temperance Movement, the Women’s suffrage Movement and the Abolitionist Movement. These were movements in which people advocated for religious freedoms. Primarily, the 2nd Great Awakening was a “way to awaken the consciouces of people”. This allowed many people to start believing in certain religions, with an increase of Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and Seventh-Day Adventists.

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It was led by people such as Charles Grandison Finney, Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Beecher, Edward Everett and Joseph Smith. It started in upstate New York, but spread to New England and the Midwest. During the Second Great Awakening, thousands of people gathered at large religious meetings called revivals. Charles was the “leader” because he (and a few of his evangelical leaders) promoted his social reforms like abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans to a mass appeal. Also, he had a background in Presbyterian religions studies, and he was a preacher. He is known as “The Father of Modern Revivalism”.

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-More division between north and south (due to pro-slavery and abolitionists)
-Emergences of movements to ban alcohol
-Increase in different religions
-Increase in church-goers and bible studies