Question

How did the Second Great Awakening contribute to the growth of reform movements in
antebellum America?
O Discouraged religious participation in social change
O Reduced individual moral responsibility
O Inspired personal transformation and social improvement
O Promoted strict predestination beliefs

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Inspired personal transformation and social improvement.

The Second Great Awakening emphasized individual conversion, moral responsibility, and the possibility of "perfection" in this life. Revivalism and leaders like Charles Finney encouraged believers to act to reform society, fueling movements such as temperance, abolition, prison and asylum reform, and early women’s rights. (It did not promote predestination or discourage social activism.)

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