Age of Reform notes The Second Great Awakening Frontier -began in earnest on the Southern frontier with large meetings taking place at centralized locations like a crowd of nearly 50,000 at Cane Ridge, Kentucky -the meetings were organized usually by Methodists and Baptists and sometimes by Presbyterians Meetings -served social and religious needs of a spread out frontier community -provided many people with their only opportunity to get married, baptized, or share in a communal religious experience -not only those seeking religion went as many went just to have a good time, but they had to beware that they didn?t come down with a case of the dreaded ?jerks? which would lead to conversion or death -gave people an emotional outlet from the tedium of everyday life