1. Change In Time Age of Reform

2. BLAH BLAH BLAH!

3. Protestant Revival Charles Grandison Finney Lyman Beecher Fiery sermons, slave running, and demand women’s rights

4. Finney

5. Former lawyer Became preacher in 1821 He addressed crowds with passion and fire. Spoke on power of individual to reform themselves

6. Beecher

7. Attended Yale 1832: president of Lane Theological Seminary in OH Good people make good country Harriet Beecher Stowe born

8. OOOH….PRETTY

9. Transcendentalists Rejected traditional religion Spiritual discovery and insight would lead to truth Humans are naturally good Private setting for rituals as opposed to large groups

10. Emerson

11. Ralph Waldo Emerson From Boston Resigned from ministry Launched American renaissance in literature Published Essays all of his lectures and poems

12. Thoreau

13. Henry David Thoreau New England transcendentalist Wrote Walden Unhappy with life in NYC Experiment in living in quiet serenity

14. Sobering Thought

15. Temperance Organized campaign to limit alcohol consumption 1815: U.S was on the way to becoming a “nation of drunkards” Promoted abstinence

16. Invented School

17. Public Education Horace Mann led reform 1837: first state secretary for board of education in MA All people should have an absolute right to education Divided school into grades

18. Be Polite….Please?

19. Moral Education Promote self-discipline and good citizenship Taught how to stand in line, good manners, politeness and respecting authority

20. HBCU

21. Reform Limits Girls discouraged from attending school Segregation was popular Some private colleges allowed blacks and 3 HBCU’s were founded.

22. Uh Oh Howard.

23. Utopian Communities Small societies dedicated to perfection New Harmony, Indiana 1825 Founded by Robert Owen Fell victim to laziness, selfishness and quarrels

24. Cibola

25. Abolition Earliest known anti-slavery protest came in 1688 from the Mennonites 1821: Benjamin Lundy founded a paper called The Genius of Universal Emancipation

26. Moral Fight

27. Abolition 2 Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society Many supporters did not believe in racial equity Just wanted slavery gone Offended blacks

28. Liberia

29. Abolition 3 Radical Abolition: William Lloyd Garrison Founded The Liberator on January 1, 1831. Burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution

30. Garrison

31. Frederick Douglass Well spoken African Abolitionist Spoke with American Anti-Slavery Society Wrote The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Started the North Star paper

32. Douglass

33. Division Of Abolitionists Women were not approved of being involved in anti-slavery talk Garrison said they should be heard. People resigned AASS for that

34. Abolition

35. Division 2 Divided over Race and Tactics as well. Sojourner Truth was a black female who was a top notch abolitionist. Born Isabella Baumfree

36. Truth

37. Underground RR Network of escape routes for slaves Operation carried out in secret Harriet Tubman: top conductor on RR “Black Moses”: 300 slaves freed

38. Tubman

39. Routes Water by the Mississippi River Swamps in the East Through the Appalachian Mountains Ohio, Indians and Pennsylvania were refuge

40. Swamp Thing

41. Elijah P. Lovejoy Resistance to abolition Sometimes violent Lovejoy killed on November 7, 1837 trying to protect his press for where he printed editorials denouncing slavery

42. Lovejoy

43. Women’s Rights Women in the South worked the fields Women in the North served the husband and raised children Cult of Domesticity: stay home

44. Confederate Daughters

45. Catherine Beecher Founded Hartford Female Seminary Wrote books lobbying for education of women A Treatise on Domestic Economy

46. C. Beecher

47. Public Roles for Women They marched in parades for temperance and abolition Angelina Grimke asked women of the South to fight slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe: “UTC”

48. The Little Lady

49. Seneca Falls 1848: Seneca Falls, NY First women’s rights convention Called for suffrage Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

50. Stanton and Anthony

51. Progress Elizabeth Blackwell: medical degree Maria Mitchell: astronomer Margaret Fuller: Women In the Nineteenth Century Sojourner Truth: For rights

52. Don’t Fall!

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