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