By Kayla Gilbert and Alex Salvas

 Kentucky and Tennessee, was the center of the revival where there was a camp meeting, which is a religious service that lasts for several days where a group of people would take shelter on the spot because of the distance from home.  Hundreds of people would go to these meetings and influenced dancing, singing, and shouting.  The largest camp meeting was at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in August 1801 where there was between 10,000 and 25,000 people.

- Supported Methodists and Baptists - wanted to expand the middle class - wanted to get rid of slavery and wanted to encourage a limit on alcohol, completely get rid of it if they could. - Charles G. Finney was an abolitionist and preached to other Christians at the camps.

Prohibitionists convinced that poverty was caused by drunkenness and persuaded 13 states to outlaw selling alcohol between 1846 and Alcohol was poured down drains.

 The Benevolent Empire movement began in the early 19th century, Growing out of Revivalism.  The movement consisted of missionaries and organizations devoted to Christianizing America and the world, and wealthy Americans who felt that their duty was to do good deeds for the less fortunate.

 There goals were to make the Indians change there religious views into Christianity.  This helped more the middle class people. Instead of the higher class.  This helped people with no jobs or place to live to make them better and get them on there feet.

 There are many different types of reforms of the 1800’s some are, Beginnings of the women's rights movement, The abolitionist movement, The temperance movement, Improving public education.  These are the major socialreforms of the 1800’s.

 The temperance movement was about the spending of money on the amount of alcohol consumed yearly instead of on food and necessary things. It lead to the evil of alcohol like abuse and absences from work.  There was a society that pressed against people for less consumption and or no alcohol. And this act led to the 1818 passage of the 18 th Amendment, ushering in the era of Prohibition

Women's rights in the 1800s were very cruel and messed up they had the right to do nothing at all. They didn’t have the right to vote or if they were married they didn’t have the right to own property. Two major reformers of women's rights are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott. They argued that men and women are created equal and should be treated as such under the law.

 The first over all thing that they wanted to with public schools was to improve the education of the students because the education was minimum and they thought that they should have a better education. Horace Mann was made secretary of state of board of education, he was going to increase funding for school education.

 "Second Great Awakening." America - Engaging the World - America.gov. U.S. Department of State, 05 Apr Web. 22 Mar   /history/chapter9section2.rhtml