... for salvation and they preached that people could improve themselves and society. This led to a pursuit for perfection. The Second Great Awakening placed religion in the forefront of politics. Alexis de Tocqueville said that, "I found that Religion was the foremost of the political institutions of the United States." The mediums that the preachers used to spread their messages were mostly large gatherings, where audiences counting into ... century, asserts that revivals were, "a crucial part of American nation-building, [as] a religious response to the political upheavals of the early n...

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... reaction against growing liberalism in religion started in 1800. It began on the southern frontier and soon rolled into the northeast cities. The Second Great Awakening surged across the land. It affected even more people than the First Great Awakening did. It was one of the most momentous episodes in the history of American religion. The Second Great awakening converted souls, many shattered and reorganized churches, and numerous new sects. Methodists ... their problems on bad habits. Sometimes reformers applied conventional virtue to refurbishing an older order. Most reformers were in...

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... more than thinking. In other words, evangelicalism "reawakened" the first settlers" passionate commitment to their faith. This "great awakening" helped to unify most Americans in a common understanding of Christian faith and life; Americans shared a common way of life. Greater emphasis was placed on education. It should be available to anyone. The awakening responded to the needs of the people for reassurance and direction, to give them ... release from anxiety. As a result of the Great Awakening, Americans saw the colonies as a "New Israel" and that this belief prompted them to perceiv...

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