The second great awakening

After reading chapter ten, I noticed that religion was different at the time than it was today. Today, we are still a nation under God, but we have the freedom to worship anything we want to in america. During the early nineteenth century however, revivalist preachers would ride on horseback to preach about spiritual and moral renewal in different towns and villages. Many of the people in those villages or towns would come in the masses to hear these preachers and spread the word about them also. An example of this occurred in Cane Ridge, Kentucky. This was the the largest revival and drew every one out ten residents in Kentucky to hear about the revivals. Methodist, Baptist, and Presbyterian preachers came and preached to the masses of people with passionate sermons to sway the crowds to strive for salvation. Events like one in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, did cause significant changes in Americans' religious affiliations. There were so many revivals across America during the second great awakening that one area in the western and central New York State was called "burned over district," which was named by Charles Grandson Finney. He said that so many religious groups came through and preached that "there were no more souls to awaken to the fire of spiritual conversion." (Paragraph 4, section 2) The second great awakening caused almost all of America to be "revived" in religion and reshape the nation's religious landscape.