August 7th – American Minute – The Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening had "camp meetings," similar to Scottish "Holy Fairs," where teams of open-air preachers rotated in a continuous stream of sermons. The largest town in Kentucky had less than 2,000 people, yet 25,000 came to Cane Ridge, Kentucky, AUGUST 7, 1801, from as far away as Ohio, Tennessee, and the Indiana Territory, to hear the preaching.