Unit 10 Notes

Reforms in the 1800’s Abolition Woman’s Rights Movement Education Care for mentally ill, deaf, blind Prisons Temperance

Leaders of the era Frederick Douglass – leading African-American abolitionist, accomplished orator and writer Susan B. Anthony – key spokesperson for the 19th century women’s suffrage movement Elizabeth Cady Stanton – leader of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement ,called for the  first convention of women’s movement in Seneca Falls, wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments” which was approved at the Seneca Falls Convention

Frederick Douglas Abolitionist speaker Spoke about his life as a slave

The Abolitionist Movement

Sojourner Truth African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Escaped slavery with infant daughter Sued and won case to get son out of slavery Spoke out against slavery

Abolitionist Publications Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The North Star (nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper in the U.S. by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.) The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831)

Women’s Suffrage Movement Susan B. Anthony…American civil rights leader…introduceed women's suffrage into the United States. Elizabeth Cady Stanton…social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.

Declaration of Sentiments Document signed at Seneca Falls Convention 1848 Author…Elizabeth Cady Stanton Purpose…"grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women."

Reform Movement achievements Women…no voting rights but now on the public conscience Gained property rights After Seneca Falls Convention many more conventions held. 100 signers (of the Declaration of Sentiments) only one still alive in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment passed.

Reform Movement achievements Shorter work day New hospitals/schools Schools for the deaf and the blind Orphanages Hospitals/help for the mentally ill Prison reforms

Lucy Stone Women’s rights activist Spoke out against slavery Established the “Woman’s Journal” magazine

Second Great Awakening a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States Motivated reformers Increased both class and regional differences

John James Audubon Studied and painted American birds Provided a new understanding of anatomy and animal behavior Inspired future naturalists

Walt Whitman Realism (as a literary genre) Considered Father of American Free Verse Wrote “Leaves of Green”

Mark Twain “Huckleberry Finn” Publication date 1884

Hudson River School Landscapes Connection with nature American West

American Art and Liturature Often focused on nature Transcendentalism…core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature. …had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.

Music “Battle Hymn of the Republic”…hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe …links the judgment of the wicked at the end of time (New Testament) with the American Civil War.

Music “Dixie”…also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie” …likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a synonym for the Southern United States.