A Second Awakening was driven by the evangelical energy of the frontier

Now, in the first half of the nineteenth century, a Second Awakening was driven by the evangelical energy of the frontier. In 1776, some 10 per cent of Americans were church-goers; by 1815, it was a quarter; by 1914, it was half.

S. Sebag-Montefiore, Jerusalem (2011), 337