<p>Can you help me clean this paragraph ( esepcailly last sentence up a bit?<br /><br />Basically the noet in the original document about disestablishment/voluntary socities boils down to this: &nbsp;<br /><br /> In the colonial period when under British control/and also in the very early days some staes had "established or official relgion" where there was oen denomination you basically had to attend/believe in ( or at least pay money even if you didn't beieve".......but there was a legal shift as this state religion was outlawed.....in the place were reform movements that filled the gap ( also called "voluntary socieities or vol. reform movements because these groups evnaglized to people who now had a voluntary choice whether ro nto to believe....some of these movements are temperance, anti dueling, Sunday school etc)<br /><br />Here's the paragraph as a whole<br /><br />"Women held integral roles in Sunday schools, which provided a means of both religion, and education in the frontier to those who may otherwise be denied both.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref">[1]</a> The independence of Sunday schools, which did not require ordained clergymen, allowed for a widespread reach. Women predominantly led Sunday schools, which either preceded church establishment or substituted for it entirely. The transition from a state established religion towards a voluntary religious choice allowed reform movements such as Sunday schools to emerge."</p>
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<p><a href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Gaustad and Noll, <em>A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877</em>, p,313</p>