Revival Takes Hold of the Country The Second Great Awakening during the early 1800s was marked by personal piety--or personal salvation--rather than schooling and theology. This movement was home to tent meetings, like at Cane Ridge Camp in 1801, where over 10,000 people gathered. Many evangelizing organizations were founded in this era, including the American Bible Society (1816), which published Christian literature.
These revivals tended to promote middle class virtues such as temperance, frugality, and work ethic, and its emphasis on these helped create a drive to promote fix injustice, in subjects ranging from abolition, temperance, and suffrage to prison reform and care for the handicapped and mentally ill. |
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