... place in western New York which became known as the, "Burned-Over," district because of the frequency of their religious fires. Catherine Brekus, in her overview of religious history in the nineteenth century, asserts that revivals were, "a crucial part of American nation-building, [as] a religious response to the political upheavals of the early national period." The Second ... encouraged women to educate because their, "natural," role was to care and nurture children. Furthermore, Emma Willard held seminars in the North that trained female teachers in math, physics, history, and geogr...

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