Second Great Awakening Dbq

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After the Second Great Awakening, Christians were convicted to view all men as being created equal in God’s eyes. Northerners’ opinions on slavery ranged from letting it come to gradual extinction without going to war against the South to immediate and mandated abolition. As discontent over the Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Act, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Northerners grew concerned that slavery would be allowed to spread in the western territories/states. Both in the North and the South, the church weighed in on these matters as Christians struggled with how to view slavery. In a series of letters (later published in a whole document), two leading Baptist theologians embodied the stark contrast of biblical perspectives. Dr. Wayland