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A. As the majority in many revivalist congregations, women became emboldened to improve their lives by joining reform movements, like the temperance movement.
The Second Great Awakening was a significant religious revival that emphasized personal piety and communal moral reform. Many women played a prominent role in the revivalist movements, which empowered them to pursue social reforms, including the temperance movement and other causes such as women's rights and abolition. This participation helped to catalyze broader social reform movements throughout the nineteenth century.