Missionary work developed in an effort to spread salvation to Indians and slaves. In the early 1800s, the second Great Awakening erupted as those favoring the personal and emotional approach associated with evangelical faiths conflicted with those seeking more rational beliefs. The second Great Awakening reinvigorated church membership and furthered humanitarian efforts including abolitionism, prison reform, the temperance movement, and women's suffrage. These camp meetings contributed to numerous conversions and vows to change wayward behavior. Membership in Baptist and Methodist churches increased most significantly.
Fiscal policy is the use of government spending and revenue collection to influence the economy.
These policies are used to achieve economic growth, full employment, and price stability. Two automatic stabilizers which stimulate the economy include unemployment insurance and federal entitlement programs including social welfare, pensions, and Social Security. Six flags have flown over Texas. These represent the different nations which occupied Texas territory beginning with Spain, then France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. When Texas became the twenty-eighth state in the United States in 1845, the flag of the United States was added but the Lone Star flag remained the official state flag.