The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement for Protestant …show more content…
Even though the U.S. wasn’t allowed involve religion into political involvement, many were inspired to help the nation they consider home. Both took involvement in the north, considering they were both going against what the south believed. The north wanted to make a difference to their nation, always ready for new involvements. The North felt that if they didn’t help others that were part of their nation god would punish them for their traitorous habits. North felt that they would be considered inhuman if they didn’t take stop the evil that was spreading their homes. The Religious movement made many feel as if the consumers a mentally corrupted by the ‘demon rum.’ (In what ways did the Second Great Awakening in the North influence temperance and abolitionism?, 2012) The Temperance movement was created so many could serve God and reform his preaching to the world. Many were stopped by that from the consumption of Alcoholics and so the north decided to take liberty into their own hands. North felt the Abolitionist movement was a way to receive blessing from God to America. Many considered the fact that people who continued to go with slavery would be punished for going against god. America would not be blessed then, considering how large number of populations felt that the American society needed slavery, especially the