Second Great Awakening Influence

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The development of the Second Great Awakening lead to America waking up. The movements that lead to The Second Great Awakening are temperance , abolition, and women's rights and the mix of religion. Temperance was the absence of alcohol or the people not drinking because it was tearing families apart and not letting them enjoy church as a family. Abolition was all about the north wanting the southern states to free the slaves and convert them. Women's rights included the rights to women to vote and pursue careers and professions that were first seen as male dominated careers. As you can see the Second Great Awakening wasn't something that happened all of a sudden but over time and took many people and their beliefs in god and their religion. …show more content…
All these powerful and brave women have something in common and it's that they all saw a future where men and women were treated equal. Women's movement, or a movement working for greater rights and opportunities for women was not led by one person but my many women at a time all contributing to the same cause. Sojourner Truth was a former slave from New York who held audiences spellbound with her powerful speeches. Although Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were mainly active reformers who supported temperance and abolition they were also supporting women's rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton however was a huge help to the women's rights movement because she cowrote the Declaration of Sentiments. The woman's rights was also so big and happened so quick like The Second Great Awakening that the first women's right Convention happened in New York called Seneca Falls Convention. Amelia Bloomer attended many of the Women's Convention that the outcome of her attending was she later became a leading voice for women's rights. It was clear that The Women's Right movement was a huge part of The Second Great Awakening. Another movement during The Second Great Awakening was the huge involvement in child education. Although it wasn’t mentioned as much, many people did have strong beliefs in it. For example Horace Mann, tried