1. The Second Great Awakening
Catherine Brekus, in her overview of religious history in the nineteenth century, asserts that revivals were, "a crucial part of American nation-building, [as] a religious response to the political upheavals of the early national period.... Furthermore, Emma Willard held seminars in the North that trained female teachers in math, physics, history, and geography. ... " Some prisons in America were simply, "holes in the ground," (American History: Connecting with the Past). ...
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