USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Camp meetings offered community, often singing and other music, sometimes dancing, and diversion from work. The practice was a major component of the Second Great Awakening, an evangelical movement promoted by Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and other preachers in the early 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -camp meeting, type of outdoor revival meeting that was held on the American frontier during the 19th century by various Protestant denominations. Camp meetings filled an ecclesiastical and spiritual need in the unchurched settlements as the population moved west.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most famous, some argue notorious, early camp meeting took place at Cane Ridge in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1801. It lasted nearly a week, attracted tens of thousands of participants, and received wide coverage in the press, launching the camp meeting movement onto the national stage.

Detailed explanation-4: -Camp meetings often provided a place for those who lived in unsettled areas to worship and gather as a community for a short period of time-typically during the late summer. They began with very temporary arrangements such as tents, wagons, and brush arbors to worship under.