USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -1800-1840: Rise of belief that anyone can achieve saving grace through inner and outer struggle against sin; introduction of camp meetings and intensified levels of revivals; widespread adoption of ethic of benevolence; upsurge of millennialism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Basic Themes of the Great Awakening Sin without salvation will send a person to hell. All people can be saved if they confess their sins to God, seek forgiveness and accept God’s grace. All people can have a direct and emotional connection with God.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 2nd Great Awakening was a religious revival that took place after the American Revolution between 1790 and 1840 in an effort to restore a simpler form of Christianity.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Second Great Awakening basically held the ideal that God offered salvation for all who chose to embrace it. Salvation (going to heaven) can be achieved by those who accept God’s grace.