USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
An American religious movement in the 1800’s known for its “Camp Meetings”
A
Suffrage
B
Transcendentalism
C
2nd Great Awakening
D
Abolitionism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Second Great Awakening, Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835. During this revival, meetings were held in small towns and large cities throughout the country, and the unique frontier institution known as the camp meeting began.

Detailed explanation-2: -It was a period of re-ligious fervor called the Second Great Awakening. Like the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s, the Second Great Awakening emphasized the importance of converting people to Protestant Christianity.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Awakening was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism in the eighteenth century. The beliefs of the New Lights of the First Great Awakening competed with the more conservative religion of the first colonists, who were known as Old Lights.

Detailed explanation-4: -Second Great Awakening The Great Awakening came to an end sometime during the 1740s. In the 1790s, another religious revival, which became known as the Second Great Awakening, began in New England. This movement is typically regarded as less emotionally charged than the First Great Awakening.

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