The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival of the United States that began at the end of the eighteenth century and lasted until the mid-nineteenth century.
The movement began around 1790, the great impact was achieved by 1800, and after 1820 membership was multiplied among the baptist and methodistic communities whose preachers were the leaders of the movement.
It came about fifty years after the First Great Awakening and consisted of renewed ideas of personal salvation achieved in revitalization meetings. The main leaders were Charles Grandison Finney, Lyman Beecher, Barton Stone, Peter Cartwright and James B. Finley.
The Second Great Awakening was extraordinarily important because it led to the strengthening of reform movements, to deal with injustice and remedy the suffering, such as the Temperance Movement, the Women's Freedom Movement and the Abolitionist Movement in which people fought for emancipation on religious principles. As a result of the decline of religious convictions, many religions sponsored religious revival. These revival had the result of a clear idea of the dependence of human beings on God.