Social and Reform Movements in Conjunction with Manfest Destiny Movements That shaped the United States before the civil War USHC 4.1 Antebellum

Reform Movements Who should be responsible for taking care of the poor and helpless? The government or the people? If you knew that a group of children, living in North Charleston, were about to be abducted and sold into slavery would you do everything in your power to help them? What if that group of children lived on the other side of the world? Is it ok to vandalize or destroy property, as long as it is for a good cause?

What is a social or reform movement? A group of people focused on changing or reforming society and/or politics. 4 Questions to Ask: Who makes up this group of people? What do they want? How do or did they intend to get it? Are they or were they successful in achieving their goals?

Occupy Wall Street Movement 1. 2. 3. 4.

Go Green! Environmental Reform Movement 1. 2. 3. 4.

“The Second Great Awakening” Religious Movement *Between the years of 1800 and 1870 America had a protestant revival *Travel preachers held “camp meetings” where hundreds of people at a time received salvation and forgiveness of sins *The most famous of these preachers were Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, 1818 The AME Church Ebenezer AME Church Lincolnville, SC Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, 1818

The Great Awakening: Inner Light/Reforms

Abolitionist “Anti-Slavery” Movement Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin Frederick Douglas Published an autobiography about his life as slave William Lloyd Garrison Published an anti-slavery newspaper called the Liberator Fought slavery through LITERATURE and EMOTIONAL means!

Abolitionist Movement, cont. Harriet “Moses” Tubman Underground Railroad Nat Turner Led a violent slave rebellion in 1831 John Brown Leader of the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Raid at Harper’s Ferry Fought slavery through ACTION and VIOLENCE!

The Grimke Sisters: Charleston, SC

Women’s Rights and Suffrage The women’s rights movement grew out of the abolitionist movement in the North Suffrage = the right, or privilege to vote in public elections Women wanted more rights: 1. the right to vote 2. the right to own property 3. the right to an equal education 4. the right to get a divorce

We will discuss: Seneca Falls Review: American Nation, Page 1070. You are to write and complete the: who, what, when, where, and why of this article.

The Seneca Falls Convention, New York 1848 *Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott when they were denied the opportunity to participate in an abolitionist convention Declaration of Sentiments “because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.”

Modern Day Slavery and Women’s Rights There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The modern commerce in humans rivals illegal drug trafficking. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/06/27/cfp.dc.trafficking.starr.cnn?iref=videosearch

Current Estimate of Slaves:

Estimate: 21 to 30 million slaves today; a new record.