The Second Awakening By the 1800 , the revivalist energies of all these congregations were combining to create the greatest surge of evangelical fervor since the first Great Awakening sixty year before . Beginning among Presbyterians in several Eastern colleges , the new awakening soon speard throughtout the country , reaching its greastest heights in the Western regions . In only a few years , a large proportionof the American people were mobilized by the movement ; and membership in those churches embraceing …showed first 75 words of 525 total…

…showed last 75 words of 525 total…century . The new religious enthusiasm meshed with the cultural and political optimism of the early republic . Many Americans were coming to believe that their nation had a special destiny : that its political system would serve as a model to the world , that its culture would become a beacon to mankind . Now there were voices arguing that the United States had a religious mission as well : that American revivalism would lead to the of the entire