What is Second Great Awakening?
The '''Second Great Awakening''' was a [[Protestant]] religious movement in the United States. The Second Great Awakening, which spread religion through [[revival meeting]]s and emotional preaching, sparked a number of reform movements. It was led by people such as [[Charles Grandison Finney]], [[Henry Ward Beecher]], [[Lyman Beecher]], E[[Edward Everett|dward Everett]] and [[Joseph Smith]]. It started in [[upstate New York]] in the 1790s, but spread to New England and the Midwest.<ref>{{cite book| title=Give Me Liberty!: An American history| last=Foner| first=Eric | year=2006 |volume=1| publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York|isbn=0393927822 |page=293| edition=1st}}</ref> During the Second Great Awakening, thousands of people gathered at large religious meetings called revivals. The people of the Second Great Awakening thought they could bring about a Golden Age in America through religion. The Second Great Awakening led to new religious movements such as the Holiness Movement and the [[Mormon]]s, and helped groups like the [[Methodism|Methodist Church]] grow.<ref>{{cite book| title=Give Me Liberty!: An American history| last=Foner| first=Eric | year=2006 |volume=1|isbn=0393927822 |page=294| edition=1st}}</ref> The Second Great Awakening led to two movements in reform, that is, changing laws and behaviors to make society better.<ref>{{cite book| title= Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War| url= https://archive.org/details/freedomsferment0000unse|last=Tyler|first=Alice Felt|year=1962|publisher=Harper and Row| isbn= 9780061310744}}</ref> One of these was the Temperance Movement, which believed that drinking [[alcohol]] was not good for society. The other was [[abolitionism]], which wanted to end slavery. People such as [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]] and [[William Lloyd Garrison]] wrote books and newspapers about how slavery should stop. They formed political movements, including the Liberty Party, the [[Free Soil Party]] and the [[Repub