Reddit reviews Revivals, Awakening and Reform (Chicago History of American Religion)

According to this book, the alcohol temperance, abolition of slavery, and women's rights campaigns during the early 1800s were related to the Second Great Awakening, a Christian religious movement. From what I understand though, the heavy lifting wasn't done by party identity but instead extrapolitical organizations like the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which did not directly run for office (so that might slip right under your "current type of context").

In fact, all three of the Great Awakenings might be argued as have served a significant political vehicle in early US history.