The Second Great Awakening

The Second Great Awakening was the second religious revival in the United States. The revival was very prominant in the Midwest and the Northwest. People started to believe that God did no longer play an important part of their lives. The attendance in church's across the nations dropped, as people thought that God did not care about their attendence. Which would mean a drop in income into church's. This can be referred to as "cheap grace" which is the action of thinking you are entitled to the same rights as someone who worships avidly and go to church every week, when you (or anyone) just thinks that by believeing in god you are entitled to the same benefits as those who worships religously. Many people thought like this in the second great awakening, and participated in this so called "cheap grace".
Charles Finney was an influential evangelist of the Second Great Awakening. He mostly spread his message in New York. Many different religious groups benefited from the Second Great Awakening including Baptists and methodists, finding the largest number of converts. Also occuring from the revivals came the Morman people, which as everyone knows, is a religion that multiple wives is allowed for the men.(which is awesome)
The revival encouraged American people to return to God, and to return to church. The revival worked and church attendance increased and a desire to reform America also arose. The Second Great Awakening also inspired the limit of alcohol consumption and to abolishment of slavery.

Slavery from the 1770-1820

The North and the South pull apart from one another in there ideas of slavery. The North was of mostly well educated and new the importance of learning to read and write. On the other hand the South was less educated with about over 1/3 of the southerners lacking the ability to read or write. Many of the northerners were against the idea of the slave trade and wanted to abolish it. In 1817 the American Colonization Society wanted the slaves to be emancipated for the own good of the southern states. One of the founders of the American Colonization Society, President Monoroe felt that his state of Kentucky progressed slower in fields of agriculture, manufactures, and prosperity of society. But the southerners would not give up their slaves they owned.
With basically all of the blacks born in America they created a homogeneous rural culture. They still kept up their traditions from Africa that they have brought over. The slaves created some of their own rituals so they felt as if they were a stable community with strong core families. For example, the way couples symbolized their marriages was by jumping over a broomstick in a public ceremony. Considering they could not become "legally" be married thats how they celebrated in their own way. Another ritual they had was how they named their children. Sons were named after their fathers, uncles or grandfathers and daughters after their grandmothers. The slaves were very optimistic about their situations working for their white owners in that they took everyday at a time working on their specific daily tasks leaving the rest of their day to do what they wanted.