Question

Burned-over districts were:
a. in Louisiana, where slaves had burned cotton fields as a form of resistance.
b. areas in New York City where slaves had set fires.
c. in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.
d. regions where few evangelical Protestants lived (as though they had been burned out).
e. in Kansas and Nebraska, where fighting broke out over issues of slavery. 1

Answer 1

Answer:

The right choice is:

c. in New York and Ohio, where intense revivals occurred.

Explanation:

In those places religious revivals and the formation of new movements of the Second Great Awakening took place. The term was first used by Charles Grandison Finney in his 1876 Autobiography.