HG Wells once said, "Our true nationality is humanity." The effects on nationalism in America are what makes the United States a stronger nation. The years that have brought us to where we are today have proven that we are strong as a whole. Especially in the 1800s, we played a vital role in developing new ways and better inventions than Galileo himself. The Second Great Awakening, the Industrial Revolution, and Educational Reform are all evidence that influenced nationalism in America. The Second Great Awakening lasted about fifty years, from about 1790 to 1840. It also spread throughout the United States. The revitalization represented by the Awakening manifested itself in many different ways than in other ecclesial communities and institutions. The Revival was certainly a Protestant phenomenon. Along with the new Awakening, revivals occurred on a scale never before seen in the United States. With the advent of Awakening revivalism, the evolution of a certain revivalist method of addressing people en masse, came the era of evangelicalism, with Protestants in the lead. The Second Great Awakening influenced social academic literature. The traditional school of thought tends to describe the historical period as one of widespread secularization and concomitant efforts by ecclesiastical elites to bring errant Christians back into the ecclesiastical fold. The Second Great Awakening appears to be a process of renewal, as churches sought to co-opt evangelical activism by dressing themselves in new clothes, rather than old, traditional ones. Focusing on the impulses of Presbyterian and Congregationalist institutions, but neglecting the Second Great Awakening outside of the New En… halfway through the document… and that children should be required to attend school. By the 1850s, many Northern states and including the West used Mann's ideas on public schools. But Americans still did not offer education to everyone. Most high schools and even colleges did not allow the inclusion of women in their schools. African Americans were forced to attend different schools that received less pay from the state. Oberlin College became the first college to admit women, in addition to men. In 1837, Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke, the nation's first permanent women's college. Nationalism was expressed throughout the 1800s. These people came together through different ideas. Through these different ideas America became known as a stronger nation. The Second Great Awakening, the Industrial Revolution, and Educational Reform are all evidence that influenced nationalism in America.