Deists like and the concept of a supreme being who created the universe. thomas jefferson, benjamin franklin all the following are true of the second great awakening except that it was as the first great awakening. not as large as a revivalist preacher, , opposition to slavery, a perfect christian kingdom on earth, opposition to alcohol and public prayer by women. charles grandison finney the religious sects that gained most from the revivalism of the second great awakening were the methodists and baptists william miller is least related toand . brigham young, the book of mormon, salt lake city, and polygamy one characteristic of the mormons that angered many non-mormons was their emphasis or cooperative, group effort tax-supported public education was deemed essential for and social stability, democracy in the first half of the nineteenth century, tax-supported schools were chiefly available to educate the children of the poor noah webster's dictionary to standardize the american language two areas where women in the nineteenth century were widely thought to be superior to men were moral sensibility and artistic refinement new england reformer is most notable for her efforts on behalf of prison and asylum reform. dorothea dix the excessive consumption of alcohol by americans in the 1800s stemmed from the hard and life of many. monotonous sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century america because the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles by the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by abolitionism when it came to scientific achievement, america in the 1800s was more interested in practical matters the hudson river school excelled in the art of painting landscapes a genuinely american literature received a strong boost from the wave of that followed the war of 1812. nationalism "civil disobedience," an essay that later influenced both mahatma gandhi and martin luther king, jr., was written by the transcendentalist henry david thoreau one american writer who did not believe in human goodness and social progress was edgar allan poe