USA HISTORY

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: -Both blacks and women began to participate in evangelical revivals associated with the Second Great Awakening at the end of the 18th century. From these revivals grew the roots of the both the feminist and abolitionist movements.

Detailed explanation-3: -The liberalization and democratization of religion that occurred during the Second Great Awakening led to an expansion of Baptist, Methodist, and Catholic congregations while creating great religious diversity. New denominations emerged, among them Disciples of Christ, Mormons, and African Methodist Episcopalians.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.