... for the passage of others. * Because of Virginias high death rate and difficult living conditions, headrights functioned as an inducement to help bolster the colony's low settlement rate. Second Great Awakening - a wave of religious fervor and revivalism that swept the United States from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. The Second Great ... Awakening also provided further religious motivation for the reform impulse. On August 6, 1801, some 25,000 men, women, and children gathered in the small frontier community of Cans Ridge, Kentucky, in ... ...

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... Abigail Adams closely understood and embodied. Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. Rational religion was her base for morality and guide to ... ...

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... to enlighten the North's awareness of the cruelty and inhumanity of slavery, especially the tragic splitting of Negro families. Her antislavery sentiments originated in the morals of the Second Great Awakening and were heightened by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. Stowe's heartrending book was pure propaganda. Uncle Tom's Cabin was written solely based on Stowe's own moral convictions; she ... ...

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... to enlighten the North's awareness of the cruelty and inhumanity of slavery, especially the tragic splitting of Negro families. Her antislavery sentiments originated in the morals of the Second Great Awakening and were heightened by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. Stowe's heartrending book was pure propaganda. Uncle Tom's Cabin was written solely based on Stowe's own moral convictions; she ... ...

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... to enlighten the North's awareness of the cruelty and inhumanity of slavery, especially the tragic splitting of Negro families. Her antislavery sentiments originated in the morals of the Second Great Awakening and were heightened by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. Stowe's heartrending book was pure propaganda. Uncle Tom's Cabin was written solely based on Stowe's own moral convictions; she ... ...

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