The correct answer is C) the Second Great Awakening and its spirit of reform.
The other options of the question were A) utopian communities and their focus on cooperation. B) Romantic writers and their questioning of Puritanism. C) the Second Great Awakening and its spirit of reform. D) the temperance movement and its emphasis on self-discipline.
In the mid-1800s, leaders of free African American communities in the North were often influenced by the Second Great Awakening and its spirit of reform.
The influence of the so-called Second Great Awakening impacted many communities of African Americans in the north region of the United States. This movement represented a revival of the fervor of Protestant Christian religions at the beginning of the 1800s. Mostly led by Methodists and Baptists preachers, the Second Great Awakening taught that as the second coming of Jesus was close, people had to behave as the Master did during his time on Earth, with morale, with honesty, and compassion.