Second Great Awakening

===Church membership soars===
[[File:1839-meth.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25|1839 Methodist camp meeting]]
The Methodist circuit riders and local Baptist preachers made enormous gains in increasing church membership. To a lesser extent the [[Presbyterians]] also gained members, particularly with the [[Cumberland Presbyterian Church]] in sparsely settled areas. As a result, the numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period—the [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]], Presbyterians, [[Congregational church|Congregationalists]]. Among the new denominations that grew from the religious ferment of the Second Great Awakening are the [[Churches of Christ]], [[Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)]], the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]], and the [[Evangelical Christian Church in Canada]].<ref name="Sydney">Sydney E. Ahlstrom, ''A Religious History of the American People'' (2004)</ref><ref name=Melton>Melton, ''Encyclopedia of American Religions'' (2009)</ref>

The converts during the Second Great Awakening were predominantly female. A 1932 source estimated at least three female converts to every two male converts between 1798 and 1826. Young people (those under 25) also converted in greater numbers, and were the first to convert.{{sfnp|Cott|1975|pp=15–16}}