Leaders of the Second Great Awakening like Charles G. This religious message dovetailed with the new economic possibilities created by the market and Industrial Revolution, making the Protestantism of the Second Great Awakening, with its emphasis on individual spiritual…

Evangelical Protestantism pervaded American culture in the antebellum era and fueled a belief in the possibility of changing society for the better. Finney urged listeners to take charge of their own salvation.

Second Great Awakening — a revival of evangelical Protestantism in the early nineteenth century. millennialism — the belief that the Kingdom of God would be established on earth and that God would reign on earth for a thousand years characterized by harmony and Christian morality. Mormons — members of an American denomination of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that emphasized patriarchal leadership. Seneca Falls — the location of the first American conference on women’s rights and the signing of the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments” in 1848.