Second Great Awakening

Many people had been disconnected from religion and other beliefs from being preoccupied with building our country. The Second Great Awakening led to reform efforts, that impacted our society. Efforts like social movements for Women's Rights, Temperance, and Abolition. I believe people's moral views is what began the Second Great Awakening that “wake” up America. People are believing on morals and equality again. But after spending many years of trying to correct our habits we are deserting beliefs that were implemented to make our society a better one.
“In the early and middle 1800s, many Americans worked to reform American life and to help disadvantaged people. Reformers tackled problems in several areas of public life” stated in the textbook …show more content…
As women began to get more involved in social issues and to speak up for what they believed was right. Leading Women's Rights Activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most vocal and one of the writers for the Declaration of Sentiments. An statement from Elizabeth Cady Stanton “To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect, of credit in the market place, of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.” The Women's rights movement gained the rights for women to vote. Now that women can vote, it allowed them to make a greater …show more content…
Abuse was a growing issues for family life in the 19th. As more husbands became more addicted to alcohol more cases of domestic violence were occurring, but had been kept in the shadows as a secret shame in our society. Since many of the husbands became more alcoholic many of the family's income and resources had been suffering in order to support their habits. The temperance movement became an slowly encouraging movement for ban alchohol. Now since the ban, many families have been better than ever before to have a healthy father in their

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The Second Great Awakening

Essay On The Second Great Awakening