CATEGORY TWO: SOCIAL INFLUENCES/CULTURE

THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING!! The QUAKERS were the main religious group that supported the Abolition Movement. THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING!! Reform Movements-movements that wanted to make CHANGES. The movement in the North to put an end to slavery- Abolition Movement

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON – PUBLISHED AN ANTI-SLAVERY PAPER CALLED “THE LIBERATOR”

DOUGLASS PUBLISHED AN ANTI-SLAVERY PAPER CALLED THE “NORTH STAR!” Harriett Tubman was a runaway slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

FAMOUS POET: HENRY DAVID THOREAU Great example of Civil Disobedience

LUCRETIA MOTT AND ELIZABETH CADY STANTON – PUSHED FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS!!

MOTT AND STANTON ORGANIZED THE SENECA FALLS CONVENTION They wrote the Declaration of Sentiments saying that “all men and women were created equal”.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY – PUSHED FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS!

SOJOURNER TRUTH – MADE A FAMOUS SPEECH – “AIN’T I A WOMAN!”

HORACE MANN – STARTED THE 1ST PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND IS CALLED THE “FATHER OF EDUCATION”

The Temperance Movement: Alcohol causes crime, poverty and family breakup!

Dorothea Dix tried to reform prisons, hospitals and mental institutions!

WALT WHITMAN – POET WHO WROTE “LEAVES OF GRASS” AND OTHER POEMS! They started TRANSCENDENTALISM, the belief that we are all born with “moral” sense! Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE – “THE SCARLETT LETTER”

WASHINGTON IRVING – WROTE “SLEEPY HOLLOW” AND “RIP VAN WINKLE”

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER – WROTE ABOUT INDIANS IN “LAST OF THE MOHICANS” AND THE “DEERSLAYER”

HERMAN MELVILLE – WROTE ABOUT A GREAT WHITE WHALE IN HIS NOVEL – “MOBY DICK.”

Edgar Allan Poe Tell-Tale Heart! The Raven! Nevermore!

MOST 19TH CENTURY PAINTERS PAINTED THE LANDSCAPE! (Hudson River School)

John James Audubon Painted birds!

Large numbers of Chinese immigrants came during the Gold Rush Large numbers of Chinese immigrants came during the Gold Rush! Many stayed and eventually help build the transcontinental railroad!

Large numbers of Irish Immigrants came to the U. S Large numbers of Irish Immigrants came to the U.S. in the 1840’s because of the potato famine!

Religious Groups: Pilgrims – Plymouth Rock (Mayflower) Puritans – Massachusetts Quakers – Pennsylvania Catholics – Maryland Mormons – Utah (Salt Lake City)