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''The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasting until the middle of the nineteenth century. While it occurred in all parts of the United States, it was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. This awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those who were less wealthy and less educated. The center of revivalism was the so-called Burned-over district in western New York. Named for its overabundance of hellfire-and-damnation preaching, the region produced dozens of new denominations, communal societies, and reform.''

''Closely related to the Second Great Awakening were other reform movements such as temperance, abolition, and women's rights. The temperance movement encouraged people to abstain from consuming alcoholic drinks in order to preserve family order. The abolition movement fought to abolish slavery in the United States. The women's rights movement grew from female abolitionists who realized that they too could fight for their own political rights. In addition to these causes, reforms touched nearly every aspect of daily life, such as restricting the use of tobacco and dietary and dress reforms. The abolition movement emerged in the North from the wider Second Great Awakening 1800–1840.''

* black involvement in mostly white churches after the American revolution declined in great numbers and by the 1840s-1850s, participation was almost non-existent, some scholars argue that this was largely bc of discrimination in the church; segregated seating, black people forbade from voting in church matters or holding leadership positions in many white churches Reverend Richard Allen, a main founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is quoted describing such incidences of discrimination in a predominately white church and being forcefully told to leave in the midst of prayer.

* by late 1700s/early 1800s, rise of black churches where African Americans worshipped in separate spaces than the predominately white churches they attended in prior years.