Effects Of The Second Great Awakening

The American society started to change tremendously in 1815.It was due to very important events ,the revolution of industry and the Second Great Awakening.The technology advanced significantly with new inventions like the telegraph, sewing machine, and assembly line.The agriculture was booming with the mechanical thresher, which was a tractor with a steam engine, and the reaper was used to harvest wheat.

The Second Great Awakening started a whole new religious and Evangelicals ideas all across America. Evangelicals advocated education and also applying God’s plan to human institutions. All the changes caused by these events influenced
Numerous reform movements, including a campaign for women’s rights. Women evolved from homemakers to leaders and workers. They started working in factories. Women began to have more power in their households, which was due to the fact they were now educated. They become very important in society when they took part in religious revival and protesting for other reform movements.
Women only job was to take care of children, cook, and undertake other tasks like sewing and raising animals. There was very little changed before the Revolution. Then a woman’s job changed to a whole new concept of republican motherhood. They were still in charge of taking care for the house, but now was given an actual important responsibility.They were in charge of the household and raising the children to be good Americans. This job, restricted women only to their homes and did not allow them to make money, forcing them to depend on their husbands for everything, making it impossible for them to become