Read the following links about the Second Great Awakening:

http://www.ushistory.org/us/22c.asp

http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/2nd_awakening.htm

From your study of the Second Great Awakening and the reform movements of the mid-19th century, do you think that the reform movements would have taken place if there had been no Second Great Awakening?  If your answer is “yes,” explain the factors that would have produced the reform movements.  If your answer is “no,” explain why the Second Great Awakening was necessary for producing the reform movements.  What was the relationship between these two important movements?

Be sure to answer these questions in an original essay (3 pages