Effects Of The Second Great Awakening

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1A) During the 1790s and early 1800s, some Americans took part in a Christian renewal movement called the Second Great Awakening.
1B) The effects of the Second Great Awakening are spent the spread of church membership across the United States and new movements inspired by this reform in order to reform society in the aspects of education, prison, slavery and alcohol abuse.
2A) Dorothea Dix's work helped to reform prisons. Her work led to more than 100 state hospitals for mentally ill people.
2B) Dorothea Dix helped improve the US prison system which led to the creation of hospitals for the mentally ill. Also Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy contributed leading the reform that founded reform schools, in addition some reformers also tried to end the

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