2nd Great Awakening (jan 1, 1795 – jan 1, 1835)
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- Religious revivals among protestant christians
- Salvation is in your hands
- Individualism! Romanticism!
- Importance of achieving perfection
- Reform movements: abolition, women's
rights, temperance
- Resistance to democracy
- S proslavery "+ good"
- Xenophobia, nativism, know nothings
- Minstrel shows
- Indian Removal Act, Trail of tears
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