<P> On the American Frontier, evangelical denominations sent missionary preachers and exhorters out to the people in the backcountry, which supported the growth of membership among Methodists and Baptists . Revivalists' techniques were based on the camp meeting, with its Scottish Presbyterian roots . Most of the Scots - Irish immigrants before the American Revolutionary War settled in the backcountry of Pennsylvania and down the spine of the Appalachian Mountains . </P> <P> These denominations were based on an interpretation of man's spiritual equality before God, which led them to recruit members and preachers from a wide range of classes and all races . Baptists and Methodist revivals were successful in some parts of the Tidewater in the South, where an increasing number of common planters, plain folk, and slaves were converted . </P> <P> In the newly settled frontier regions, the revival was implemented through camp meetings . These often provided the first encounter for some settlers with organized religion, and they were important as social venues . The camp meeting was a religious service of several days' length with preachers . Settlers in thinly populated areas gathered at the camp meeting for fellowship as well as worship . The sheer exhilaration of participating in a religious revival with crowds of hundreds and perhaps thousands of people inspired the dancing, shouting, and singing associated with these events . The revivals followed an arc of great emotional power, with an emphasis of the individual's sins and need to turn to Christ, restored by a sense of personal salvation . Upon their return home, most converts joined or created small local churches, which grew rapidly . The Second Great Awakening marked a religious transition in society in America . Many Americans from the Calvinist sect emphasized man's inability to save themselves and that their only way to be saved was from grace from God . </P> <P> The Revival of 1800 in Logan County, Kentucky, began as a traditional Presbyterian sacramental occasion . The first informal camp meeting began there in June, when people began camping on the grounds of the Red River Meeting House . Subsequent meetings followed at the nearby Gasper River and Muddy River congregations, all three under the ministry of James McGready . One year later, an even larger sacrament occasion was held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky under Barton Stone, attracting perhaps as many as 20,000 people . Numerous Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist ministers participated in the services . Thanks to such leaders as Barton W. Stone (1772--1844) and Alexander Campbell (1788--1866), the camp meeting revival became a major mode of church expansion for the Methodists and Baptists . </P>

Who had responsibility for their salvation according to second great awakening ideas