Abolitionists of the early 1800s were influenced by the

a) first great awakening.

b) second great awakening.

c) rise of cotton.

d) decline of cotton.

B) Second Great Awakening.

The Second Great Awakening started many reform movements with its message of morality and progress. It encouraged people to find ways to improve society and return the US to a moral country. The abolition movement rose out of the Second Great Awakening as some viewed the religious movement as a way to improve the condition of slavery and to free those enslaved. The movement encouraged increased freedom and the ending of institutions which restricted humanity in any way.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.