USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What event led directly to major social reforms in the United States during the 19th century?
A
1st Great Awakening
B
2nd Great Awakening
C
Women’s suffrage movement
D
Victory in the War of 1812
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -American Protestant Christians’ beliefs changed during the early 19th century in a period known as the Second Great Awakening. Marked by a wave of enthusiastic religious revivals, the Second Great Awakening set the stage for equally enthusiastic social reform movements, especially abolitionism and temperance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Key movements of the time fought for women’s suffrage, limits on child labor, abolition, temperance, and prison reform.

Detailed explanation-3: -It helped propel numerous reform movements, most notably involving temperance and abolition, even as it attempted to return Christianity to its primitive roots. And it reinforced American beliefs in the individual’s priority and agency even as it helped to bring a sense of community to a highly mobile populace.

Detailed explanation-4: -Key Takeaways: The Second Great Awakening It pushed the idea of individual salvation and free will over predestination. It greatly increased the number of Christians both in New England and on the frontier. Revivals and public conversions became social events that continue to this day.

Detailed explanation-5: -What was one effect of the Second Great Awakening on religion in the United States? Church attendance greatly increased across the country. Most people joined utopian communities to improve society. The Baptist and Methodist churches were founded.

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