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Answer 1

Many participants in the Second Great Awakening were women because...

Answer 2

Part of the Second Great Awakening was a new recognition that women were not the sinful, salacious creatures that they had been made out to be previously, because of the sin of Eve, but that they were indeed the salvation of the household--their husbands and children--as the pious ones. This played into the idea of Republican Motherhood as the ideal woman being a helpmate to her husband, providing the home as haven for him from the outside pressures of the public sphere, as well as the idea that the mother was the primary educator of her children, the sons as future leaders and the daughters as future homemakers as herself. Many of these Republican Mothers also began to seek a "public sphere" for themselves, engaging in activities such as library lectures and women's clubs, allowing them more time outside the home. From there, women began to search for more freedoms that they didn't have, including the right to vote.

Answer 3

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