Section 2
The Second Great Awakening
By Boundless
The Second Great Awakening, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching, sparked a number of reform movements.
Unitarianism and Universalism were early Christian denominations that spread quickly during the nineteenth century.
Women constituted the majority of converts and participants in the Second Great Awakening and played an important informal role in religious revivals.
In the new frontier regions, the revivals of the Second Great Awakening took the form of vast and exhilarating camp meetings.
The "Burned-Over District" in central and western New York was so named due to the rampant religious revivals of the nineteenth century.
Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint religious and cultural movement, emerged in the 1800s in upstate New York.