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.

were at first enthusiastic in support of the revolution. however, over time divisions of opinion became apparent between federalists and anti-federalists

after the roman empire, the catholic church began to unify by taking on many duties of a government.