Great opportunities were given to the people when The Market Revolution arrived for the Americans and led people on trying to represent their rights as residents. Firstly, the female factory workers complained about the length of their labor which they compared to the slaves. In an example, “large class of females are, ….. however they may infringe on the rights or confict with the feeling of the operative—slaves to ignorance” (Foner 167). This represents the anger towards the owner and wanted to have a shorter labor. It created an opportunity for future generations …show more content…
One of the examples were Joseph Smith’s Mormon religion that was declined by the Americans due to the unknown theory that he came up with as a proof of his beliefs. As stated by Smith, As soon as the news of this discovery was made known, false reports, misrepresentation, and slander flew” (Foner 171). This shows that freedom of religion was still not effective due to the judgments and rejection that Smith received after declaring the Mormon religion. Moreover, Finney also had the same treatment when he declared the Second Great Awakening to the American people. He wanted to give people a change of heart and become close to God once again. Finney shouted, “Sinner! Your obligation to love God is equal to the excellence of his character, and your guilt in not obeying him is, of course, equal to your obligation” (Finner 187). He preached this towards the people who have lost faith to God already and immediately judged that he was crazy since they only depend to the Government officials. Despite Smith and Finney trying hard to get their religion spread to the American people, their freedom of religion and speech were immediately shut down by them and gave them