LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Baptists and Methodists
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Baptists and Unitarians
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Catholics and Episcopalians
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Universalists and Lutherans
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most successful denominations of the Second Great Awakening were the Methodist and Baptist churches. By the 1820s, the Methodist and Baptist churches were the largest evangelical denominations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many churches experienced a great increase in membership, particularly among Methodist and Baptist churches. The Second Great Awakening made soul-winning the primary function of ministry and stimulated several moral and philanthropic reforms, including temperance and the emancipation of women.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the start of the Revolution the largest denominations were Congregationalists (the 18th-century descendants of Puritan churches), Anglicans (known after the Revolution as Episcopalians), and Quakers. But by 1800, Evangelical Methodism and Baptists, were becoming the fasting-growing religions in the nation.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was founded in Ohio in November of 1874, and grew out of the “Woman’s Crusade” of the winter of 1873-1874.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.