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The Age of Reform Chapter 12. The Second Great Awakening: l Camp meetings provided emotional religious experiences on the frontier.

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1 The Age of Reform Chapter 12

2 The Second Great Awakening: l Camp meetings provided emotional religious experiences on the frontier

3 A Camp Meeting

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5 2 nd Great Awakening in African American Communities

6 The Second Great Awakening in the North l Charles G. Finney –Departed radically from Calvinist doctrine –Appeal for conversion based on emotion not reason –Emphasized free will, salvation, equality l Revivals led to organization of more churches

7 Temperance Movement

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10 The "Ladies of Logan" sing hymns in front of bars

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14 Abolitionism

15 Abolitionist Engravings

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17 Frederick Douglas

18 From Abolitionism to Women's Rights l Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 – Organized by Lucretia Mott + Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Began movement for women’s rights (suffrage movement) – Declaration of Sentiments l “We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created equal”

19 Radical Ideas & Experiments: Utopian Communities l Utopian socialism –Inspired by Robert Owen l New Harmony, Indiana l Religious utopianism –Shakers –Oneida Community

20 Utopian Communities Before the Civil War

21 Radical Ideas & Experiments: Transcendentalism l Ralph Waldo Emerson –Individualism, self-reliance l George Ripley –Founded cooperative community at Brook Farm –Effort at utopian reform  harmony/cooperation to replace competition l Henry David Thoreau and Walden

22 Education l Horace Mann –Compulsory, publicly funded education for all l McGuffey readers in public schools –Conveyed morals/values to students –Education as means to improving society


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