Description
Beginning in the 1790s and continuing until about the 1840s, America went through a Second Great Awakening, a new series of religious revivals that helped to turn the United States into a nation of church-goers, a transformation that has profoundly shaped American history ever since. One of the consequences of this Second Great Awakening was a massive new interest in making America a better place to live. We’ll explore how these revivals of evangelical religion spurred the rise of dozens of new social reform movements—the temperance campaign, for instance—that together mark the early nineteenth century as an Age of Reform.
