Reform movements of the Antebellum era. Calls for Change (1830-1860) Reform movements of the Antebellum era.

Agenda April 4th 2017 Do Now: If you could protest for a specific cause today, what would it be and how would you advocate(speak out for) the change you want to see? Complete guided notes on causes and impacts of reform movements. Complete writing prompt. HW: E.Q. Sheet due April 11th, 2017. Unit 10 test April 11th, 2017.

Start of labor protest Groups of skilled workers joined together to form trade unions to protest the spread of factories. Other workers went on strike(refused to work) unless they got better pay and shorter hours. The government recognized the right to strike about 1840’s. Many employers simply hired immigrants to replace striking workers. Should the workers have protested their working conditions if they were going to be fired?

Second Great Awakening “ A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.***Very often the most abandoned profligates(sinners) are among the subjects(of revivals) . Harlots(prostitutes), and drunkards, and infidels(non believers), and all sorts of abandoned characters, are awakened and converted (to Christianity). The worst part of human society are softened, and reclaimed(brought back to society), and made to appear as lovely specimens of the beauty of holiness.” Charles Findley Revivalist minister Major religious revival among Protestant clergy that stressed 1) personal connection to God and 2) call to reform(change) society to insure all could be made perfect. Baptist and Methodist churches formed. Who is the speaker in this passage? Underline his definition of a revival. Inspired by the revivalists many formed small communities where people could live out their social ideals(Utopian communities). How might a member of his congregation work to insure that “sinners” in their community receive redemption?

Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margret Fuller were transcendentalists writers from New England. Believed that all people (regardless of race, beliefs or gender) and nature were symbols of divine perfection. Society needed to be returned to this state of nature through social reform. Emmerson argued that people must follow their own beliefs not those of others in Self Reliance. Thoreau argued that people should resist unjust laws in Civil Disobedience. Margret Fuller argued in Women in the 19th Century that men and women could to the same jobs and opened a school for girls.

Women’s rights He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise (voting) He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice. He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead. He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns. He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments... As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known. He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education, all colleges being closed against her. He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self respect and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Convention called in Seneca falls N.Y. Declaration of Sentiments drafted (segment is here). As I read each segment write down What rights are women demanding ? Many of these rights are not granted but many women are inspired to join the fight for equality. Women’s rights activists like Lucrecia Mott, The Grimke sisters and Susan B. Anthony also in the anti-slavery movement.

Education Early education was strictly limited to the wealthy who attended private schools. Horace Mann, a key education reformer, argued that all citizens should have access to “common schools”(public schools) and common assessments(tests of student knowledge) supported by the government for at least 6 months. Why not all year? What are examples of common assessments you can think of? All Northern states had public schools by 1860, the south did not. Why might this be?

Temperance(call to end the drinking of Alcohol)

Think Write Share Answer on notebook paper. How might the reform movements we looked at impact American families in the 1840’s? How might these movements impact us today?