The Great Awakening

Identify the major reform movements of the Second Great Awakening. To what extent were reformers during the Second Great awakening successful in achieving their goals?

The reformers of the Great Awakening were very effective in achieving their goals due to their future advancements, and the major reform movements included reforms in abolition, Women’s rights, and Temperance. The abolition movement spread the idea that that slavery was wrong. It would eventually lead to the outlaw of slavery during the Civil War. The women’s rights movement was started during the 2nd Great Awakening, and will lead to rights that women of today have. Alcohol abuse caused a strong belief for the temperance and would later start the strong prohibition movement.

The abolition movement was strongly reinforced during the Second Great Awakening, and was successful in spreading the idea that slavery was wrong. The American colonization society was formed with moderate abolitionists. This included the prominent Northerners and Southerners who thought emancipation would create too many free blacks. They felt that blacks and whites could not