1. Effects: Immigration Irish ImmigrantsGerman Immigrants Push Factors for Immigration Life in America Anti-Immigration Movements: Immigration Urban Growth Rapid Population and city growth; anti-immigration movements Increased population in the cities Potato Famine Most poor, settled in NY, Mass., NJ, and Penn Escape religious persecution and Revolution Famers, rural areas, mid-western states Nativist – Americans who opposed immigration Know-Nothing Party – political organization that supported measures making it difficult for foreigners to become citizens

2. The ARTS TranscendentalismRomanticism Focused on natures and simple life Personal insight Philosophy Focused on emotion and American history

3. Reforming Society The Second Great Awakening Explanation: Important Individuals What was the impact? Temperance Movement Explanation and important individuals: Reason for Reform? Accomplishments? Prison Reform Explanation and important individuals: Reason for Reform? Accomplishments? Education Reform Explanation and important individuals: Reason for Reform? Accomplishments? Christian renewal movement in the 1790s and 1800s Charles G. Finney Lyman Beecher Caused social reforms Reform movement which urged people to stop drinking alcohol and liquor Alcohol corrupted families and morals 18 th amendment banned alcohol Poor condition of prisons – children, mentally ill, punishments, etc… Dorothea Dix Poor condition of prisons – children, mentally ill, punishments, etc… Led to reform schools for children, creation of houses correction, offered prisoners education Horace Mann Wanted Common School to give all children a free public education Schools could help society, allow all people to have an equal start Mann’s success set the standard for education throughout the country

4. Abolitionists and Women’s Rights Abolitionists Movement Women’s Rights Movement What is the Abolitionists movement?Why would reformers link the issues of abolition and Women’s Rights?? Importance and Explanation of what he/she did… William Lloyd Garrison Angeline and Sarah Grimke Frederick Douglas Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Why did Northerners oppose slavery? Why did southerners support slavery? Explanation and Importance Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Seneca Falls convention Declaration of Sentiments Lucy Stone Susan B. Anthony The major goal of women’s rights was suffrage. Suffrage: Movement for a complete end to slavery Female abolitionists discovered that they often had to defend their rights to speak Abolitionists newspapers – the Liberator, helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society White southern women, anti- slavery activists Escaped slave, Speaking tours, anti-slavery newspaper “North Star” Traveled through the North and preached the truth about Women’s Rights and Slavery Conductor of the Underground Railroad Human Rights issue Economic need Organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Mott Organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Stanton First public meeting about women’s rights held in U.S. Document detailing beliefs about social injustice towards women Gifted speaker about abolitionists movement and women’s rights Strong organizational skills, turned it into a political movement To vote