What Are The Effects Of The Second Great Awakening

In Antebellum America, a Second Great Awakening swept the nation through fervorous Protestant religious revivals. As a matter of fact, 75% of Americans attended church regularly during this time. The Second Great Awakening was an important period in history because many religions, denominations, and utopian societies were founded, it shaped the way churches are now, and it influenced many more important movements in American history.
The Second Great Awakening was a time in which Protestant revivals spread like wildfire from 1790-1840. Out of these revivals, many new religions and denominations came about. The most prominent ones are Christians, Methodists, Baptists, the Black churches, and the Mormons. Prominent leaders of the Christian movement were Elias Smith, Barton Stone, James O’Kelly, and Alexander Campbell. These men radically changed norms and encouraged people to interpret the New Testament in their own way, as well as founded many Christian churches. The Christian revival was aided by superior communication methods, such as newspapers; Smith’s Herald of Gospel Liberty, Campbell’s The Christian Baptist and Abel M. Sargent’s The Halcyon Itinerary and True Millennium Messenger.
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They have influential preachers, sermons, and singing. Supernatural things occur in services as well as people’s passion for God is fired. The camp meetings greatly influenced our churches in this literal way, and also in the way that without these camp meetings, revival wouldn’t have happened. People wouldn’t have been converted. The religions might not have survived to stand today if only a miniscule amount of people existed in these religions. We also wouldn’t have the influence of many great influential sermons and preachers to mentor the others. The Second Great Awakening’s camp meetings were the base for our churches