Explain how the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening popularized the outlook known as perfectionism, which held that both individuals and society at large were capable of indefinite improvement. How did the idea of perfectionism relate to the various reform movements that arose in the antebellum period?. How did it manifest itself in the Temperance Movement, the Asylum Movement, the Common School Movement, the Abolitionist Movement and any other reforms that you read about?
