during the 1700's, most o the Americans experience a religious energy that was known as the Great Awakening. There was another religious energy that was known as the Second Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement in the first of the 1800's. The Second Great Awakening influenced the American life. It began in Kentucky and later is spread into the north and south. there was a religious inspiration for the second great awakening and it was spread through outdoor services and this was known as "revivals". one of the most important influential revivalists was Charles Grandison Finney, he dramatically maintained his faith and he let his listeners to do the same. there was another important influential revivalists and
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some of the americans wanted the government to support the religion but other americans differed with the idea because they wanted the government to protect public life from religious control. a lot of tensions happened between church and state and those tensions were never over, they still exist until this day. there wer two new relious groups formed and they were mormons and unitarians. in 1830, joseph smith and some of his followers organized the church of jesus christ and the latter day saints, and the member of the that church were called mormons. the mormons isolated themselves in their own communities where they followed practices that were frowned upon by their neighbors, such as allowing men to have more than one wife. the mormons were economically powerful and strong. they took control on their lands as groups not as individuals and that what made them powerful. the mormons being that powerful made their neighbors angry, wherever they wanted to set up their communities their neighbors chased them. the mormons where chased out of ohio and missouri. members of several puritan or congregational churches in new england began to argue that, instead of seeing god as a trinity, people should see god as a single divine
some of the americans wanted the government to support the religion but other americans differed with the idea because they wanted the government to protect public life from religious control. a lot of tensions happened between church and state and those tensions were never over, they still exist until this day. there wer two new relious groups formed and they were mormons and unitarians. in 1830, joseph smith and some of his followers organized the church of jesus christ and the latter day saints, and the member of the that church were called mormons. the mormons isolated themselves in their own communities where they followed practices that were frowned upon by their neighbors, such as allowing men to have more than one wife. the mormons were economically powerful and strong. they took control on their lands as groups not as individuals and that what made them powerful. the mormons being that powerful made their neighbors angry, wherever they wanted to set up their communities their neighbors chased them. the mormons where chased out of ohio and missouri. members of several puritan or congregational churches in new england began to argue that, instead of seeing god as a trinity, people should see god as a single divine