USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although it helped liberalize organized religion and inspired many political and social reformers to look at reform in moral terms, the Social Gospel failed to win over many urban immigrants, and offered few long-term solutions to urban problems.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Social Gospel became a major force in the mainline churches of Great Britain and the United States, inspiring movements as diverse as the YMCA, Women’s suffrage, socialist labor reform, and Prohibition.

Detailed explanation-3: -The social gospel’s origins are often traced to the rise of late 19th-century urban industrialization, immediately following the Civil War. Largely, but not exclusively, rooted in Protestant churches, the social gospel emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age” capitalism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920.