What explains the close connections between the religious revivalism of the Second Great Awakening and campaigns for social reform in the 1830s and 1840s?
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An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss how the religious revivalism of the Second Great Awakening was animated by a democratic and egalitarian spirit and moral reform impulse.
2. Discuss how most converts in the religious revivals led by preachers were women who then prayed and lobbied their husbands and families to convert.
3. Discuss how by encouraging women to be active in their religious communities and by emphasizing the importance of showing one's faith through ethical behavior, it was only a short leap for women, their converted families, and religious leaders to embrace the moral reform movements of abolitionism, prison reform, reform in treatment of the mentally ill, and temperance (the campaign against alcohol).
4. Discuss the religious backgrounds and analytical influences of revival leaders such as Charles Finney and Theodore Dwight Weld in contributing to the ethical behavior stream of the abolitionist movement.
5. Discuss the moral influence of Rev. Lyman Beecher, his support of revivals and the strong analytical connection to the temperance sermons he gave during his preaching.
6. Discuss the development and role of the voluntary, interdenominational religious societies such as the American Sunday School Union and the American Bible Society in distributing reading books and Bible stories in places where there were no schools and in Sunday Schools as part of an effort to encourage ethical, God-fearing behavior by people in local communities.
7. Discuss the role of voluntary, interdenominational religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions in sending missionaries around the world to extend the goal of moral reform worldwide.
8. Write a concise and effective conclusion.
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