The Second Great Awakening started the 1790's and was mostly embraced Methodists, Baptists, and the Presbyterians. In some regions women significantly outnumbered the men and so men would move west but women couldn't and they had very uncertain futures.
Some women used religion as a foundation to build their lives. They were able to do this because of the religious tolerance that came out of the Second Great Awakening. Women were moving out of the home into factories for work and so a lot of women went to the revivals and this enthusiasm helped compensate for the adjustments during this time. Women also started having new roles such as working with charities.
The Second Great Awakening was "eagerly embraced" by African Americans. In the slave community, black preaches were very important and there were a lot of black revival meetings. One example of this was in Virginia 1800, Gabriel Prosser arranged a plan for a slave rebellion and attack on Richmond during one of these meetings but the plan was discovered and it revealed more racial unrest in the South.
Native Americans also had strong feelings of revivalism but it was different than those from a white or black society. The time of the Second Great Awakening was a time of Indian religious fervor and prophecy. They called for a revival of traditional Indian ways but this encouraged Christian missionaries to become active within the tribes and encouraged Iroquois men to become sedentary farmers.
The Second Great Awakening was a time of evangelical fervor and revival in the newly formed nation of America. The British colonies were settled by many individuals who were looking for a place to worship their Christian religion free from persecution. As such, America arose as a religious nation as observed by Alexis de Tocqueville and others. Part and parcel with these strong beliefs came a fear of secularism.
This fear had arisen during the Enlightenment which resulted in the First Great Awakening. The Second Great Awakening arose in 1800. The idea of social equality that came about with the advent of the new nation trickled down to religion. Specifically, Methodists and Baptists began an effort to democratize religion. Unlike the Episcopalian religion, ministers in these sects were typically uneducated. Unlike the Calvinists, they believed and preached in salvation for all. Read more at ThoughtCo.com.