The Second Great Awakening was a religious impulse that swept through the nation post-1790s. ... The Second Great Awakening placed religion in the forefront of politics. ... " The Second Great Awakening sparked an era of change, an era of spirituality, an Era of Reform. The Second Great Awakening led many to explore and experiment with a wide array of social reforms as ways to accomplish reform, whether it be through environmentalism, temperance, body reforms, transcendentalism, social utopias, or abolition. ... Cubberley avers that, "No one did more than he to establish in the min...

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The Right to be Free Freedom. Webster's dictionary defines freedom as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action as well as liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. American history has been, in essence, a huge struggle for those very principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Qtd. In Sime and McCambridge, 225). ...

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Maggie, A Girl of the Streets). ... Due to her age, which Ša is able to keep in character so well, this little girl cannot understand why her mom just won't let her go, doesn't comprehend why her mom is so upset, at least on the appropriate level. ...

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