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Despite the call to action, ministers and preachers absolutely wanted to avoid engaging in radicalism. Advocating for temperance was viewed as reform, but abolitionism was seen as radical. More importantly, they did not want women to become involved in "radical" reforms. Needless to say, women did not listen to them. Lyman Beecher's daughter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, became one of the most influential abolitionists and authors (''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486440281/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0486440281&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=4e64cf9864f9d71e4ff836febfd51657 Uncle Tom's Cabin]'') in America. The Second Great Awakening helped fuel abolitionism. William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, and others were inspired by the Second Great Awakening's revivalism to attack slavery.

[[File: Joseph_Smith,_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|Joseph Smith Jr.- 1842]]

The revivals were not just limited to adherents of the New Haven theological movement. New religions began to sprout up in the United States. Many of the religions were created in the "burnt over district" of upstate New York. Finney created the term because preachers had repeatedly crisscrossed this part of New York state during the Awakening. Joseph Smith created the most lasting and influential of these religions - Mormonism.