The Second Great Awakening

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The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival. It influenced the entire country to do good things in society and do what was morally correct. The Second Great Awakening influenced the North more than it did the South and on a whole encouraged democratic ideas and a better standard for the common man and woman. The Second Great Awakening made people want to repent the sins they had made and find who they were. It influenced the end of slavery, abolitionism, and the ban of alcohol, temperance. Abolitionism was an issue between the North and South and had been debated in Congress long before the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening was like a wake up call that slavery was morally wrong and that something had to be done a soon as possible to correct it. The Awakening inspired northerners to take a stand on slavery and confront southerners about this problem. Before, Northerners really did not care about what was going on in the south, as long as they got their cotton to use in the textile mills and could work they were fine. They did not care about slavery because it...

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