apr 6, 1830 - The Second Great Awakening: Mormons

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Another Christian sect known as the “Mormons” (officially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. He based his teachings on the Book of Mormon, which “connected” the lost tribes of Israel to American Indians living in the United States. After Smith started to receive a following he was murdered by a local mob, which forced the Mormons to escape persecution under the leadership of Brigham Young to the “New Zion”, which was located on the banks of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Although the Mormons prospered there, their practice of polygamy was frowned upon by the United Stated government. The Second Great Awakening had affected all sections of the country, but particularly in the northern states (from Massachusetts to Ohio) social reform had started to occur because of it. Activist religious groups would drive these reform movements that characterized the antebellum era.

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