Defining The Second Great Awakening

In class, we were asked to write out a 25-word-or-less abstract about Nathan Hatch's article. Here is mine:
The Second Great Awakening, fueled primarily by (the) common people of America, brought together the American community, rather than normalizing religion.
I discussed this a little bit in my previous blog-post, but not quite enough.

In class, we talked about how we define the "common American people". We came up with the idea that within the "common people," education is not the base of authority, and it encompassed a majority of American citizens, which were gaining a growing influence on the effect of religion. During the Second Great Awakening, they were the ones who "converted", and joined congregations, and promoted the spread of religion.
These were the people who fueled the movement.

I feel that the Second Great Awakening brought together the American community rather than normalizing religion because the religious movements were all over the board. Hatch talks primarily about the Baptists, Methodists, black churches, Mormons, and Christians, and ignores the rest. Most people talk about how the movement brought together with a single religious purpose, but there is no single religious purpose. The Second Great Awakening brought many members of communities together, forming stronger townships and a few common ideas. From the communities that formed, democracy became easier to promote.