The Second Great Awakening

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The date The Second Great Awakening The changes that began to rapidly take place in the North , in the 1800 's were extremely diversified , and "the cumulative effect of these changes was to very significantly widen the gap between the modernizing northern states and the more traditional southern states (Harrell .2005 . 296 . The industrial movement was underway , and immigrant populations were increasing in massive numbers as well . It was in this time of change that

the second awakening , called a spiritual quickening (311 , began . Compared to the first awakening it was much less organized , and saw the formation of many diverse religious reform movements . In the first great awakening a specific time period was involved , and the movement had specific goals it wished to attain . In comparison , the reason there is disagreement over the second awakening being classified as a movement was because it involved far too many monumental events , and issues . Some of these were changes within society , the industrial revolution , and women 's rights movements education reform , and of course slavery for example , it was therefore "really too long , too diffuse , and to diverse to accurately be subsumed under such a label (311 . Other influences which fueled the second awakening movements were realized due to the Declaration of Independence , and the writing of the Constitution , which "suggested that America 's political idealism would eventually transform the world (315 . The second awakening began on the heels of...