1. Why were people drawn to the Social Gospel?

The Social Gospel was a social movement in the Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems.

It discussed issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war.

It was most popular in the early-20th-century United States and Canada

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Gospel#:~:text=The%20Social%20Gospel%20was%20a,and%20the%20dangers%20of%20war