Webbing - Database Search

Using the database provider EBSCOhost and the search term "frontier faith", I found an article about religion on the frontier entitled Focus on the Frontier Family: How Methodists Strengthened the Christian Home - and Changed It. I think this article may help me to answer the following guiding questions: What religious interests were in power in the country in which Caddie Woodhouse lived? and Did Caddie Woodhouse fit in with the religious climate or was she in opposition to it?

I think I need to find information about politics during the 1860s and the influence the American Civil War had on pioneers. I also want to search the historical sociey websites next.