USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Camp meetings were outdoor religious revival meetings popularized on the southern frontier during the early nineteenth century. These meetings generally lasted several days and attracted participants who traveled significant distances and camped on-site for the duration of the meeting.

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: -Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists united in holding camp meetings on the frontier with great success in the number of converts. People came by the thousands on foot, on horseback, by carriage or wagon, to camp for several days, or even three or four weeks.

Detailed explanation-5: -a religious gathering held in a tent or in the open air.