New Movements in America CHAPTER 15 New Movements in America Section 1: America’s Spiritual Awakening Section 2: Immigrants and Cities Section 3: Reforming Society Section 4: The Movement to End Slavery Section 5: Women’s Rights

SECTION 1 America’s Spiritual Awakening Question: Who were the key people and what were the key ideas of the American romantic movement?

America’s Spiritual Awakening SECTION 1 America’s Spiritual Awakening Definition of Romantic Movement Influential Ideas Focus of Work Artists and Writers artistic movement that developed out of the movement in Europe, in which American painters and writers believed in bringing a simpler, more individual point of view to their works romantic movement in Europe, spirituality, the simple life, nature, individual’s uniqueness landscape, nature, history, slavery, American individualism and democracy Thomas Cole, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman

SECTION 2 Immigrants and Cities Question: What were the problems and benefits of growing U.S. cities in the mid-1800s?

Immigrants and Cities SECTION 2 Growth of U.S. Cities Problems Benefits overcrowding poorly built housing poor sanitation no permanent fire or police force diseases and epidemics lack of public services job opportunities growth of middle class entertainment and cultural life

SECTION 3 Reforming Society Question: What were the causes and effects of the American temperance movement?

Reforming Society SECTION 3 The Temperance Movement Cause: Effects: belief that alcohol abuse led to social problems, such as family violence, poverty, and criminal behavior Cause: Effects: Maine and 12 other states passed laws making the sale of alcohol illegal prevention of alcohol abuse Cause: worry over the effects of alcohol Cause:

SECTION 4 The Movement to End Slavery Question: By what methods did abolitionists and supporters of slavery spread their messages?

The Movement to End Slavery SECTION 4 The Movement to End Slavery Spreading the Message Working to End Slavery Working to Keep Slavery speaking tours and lectures newspapers pamphlets and essays poetry, plays, and slave narratives abolitionist societies essays petitions to Congress newspaper editorials political speeches threats to abolitionists federal laws

SECTION 5 Women’s Rights Question: What were the goals of the women’s rights movement and how did they hope to achieve these goals?

Women’s Rights SECTION 5 Women’s Rights gain the right to vote gain the right to sit on juries take advantage of better educational opportunities married women get the right to control their own property Women’s Rights getting men to take part in the fight organizing more effectively

Chapter Wrap-Up CHAPTER 15 1. How did the Second Great Awakening affect reform movements of the mid-1800s? 2. How did U.S. immigration between 1840 and 1860 affect the economy? 3. Choose three of the following people and explain how they worked to end slavery: Robert Finley, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina and Sarah Grimk, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.