Chapter 7: Social and Cultural Movements in Antebellum America Kristen Yost B period
What role should women play in the new republic? The Role of Women in Antebellum America: The Cult of Domesticity/Republican Motherhood What role should women play in the new republic?
Republican Motherhood
Factory Workers in Lowell
Changing the Role of Women in Antebellum America: Characteristics of the Women’s Movement
The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Issues Fought During the Seneca Falls Convention Women’s suffrage Women’s right to retain property after marriage Greater divorce and child custody rights Equal educational opportunities
Dorothea Dix
Abolition and Abolitionists: The Second Great Awakening “Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.” ~Charles Finney
American Colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison “immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves” “Let Southern oppressors tremble…I will be as harsh as Truth and as uncompromising as Justice…I am in earnest–I will not retreat a single inch–and I WILL BE HEARD!”
Frederick Douglass “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.” “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Sarah Moore Grimké “I ask no favor for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet off our necks.” “I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.”
Transcendentalism and Utopian Communities: Transcendentalism “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Utopian Communities
Best-Known Utopian Communities
Cultural Advances: Education
The Hudson River School