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Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY Antebellum Revivalism & Reform
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1. The Second Great Awakening 1. The Second Great Awakening “Spiritual Reform From Within” [Religious Revivalism] Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality Temperance Asylum & Penal Reform Education Women’s Rights Abolitionism
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“The Pursuit of Perfection” In Antebellum America “The Pursuit of Perfection” In Antebellum America
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Second Great Awakening Revival Meeting
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The ranges of tents, the fires, reflecting light…; the candles and lamps illuminating the encampment; hundreds moving to and fro…;the preaching, praying, singing, and shouting,… like the sound of many waters, was enough to swallow up all the powers of contemplation. Charles G. Finney (1792 – 1895) “soul-shaking” conversion R1-2
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The Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) Joseph Smith (1805-1844) 1823 Golden Tablets 1830 Book of Mormon 1844 Murdered in Carthage, IL
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The Mormon “Trek”
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The Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) Salt Lake City, Utah Brigham Young (1801-1877 )
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Shaker Meeting
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Shaker Simplicity & Utility
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2. Transcendentalism (European Romanticism) 2. Transcendentalism (European Romanticism) eLiberation from understanding and the cultivation of reasoning.”
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Transcendentalist Intellectuals/Writers Concord, MA Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854) Resistance to Civil Disobedience (1849) Self-Reliance (1841) R3-1/3/4/5
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The Transcendentalist Agenda Give freedom to the slave. Give well-being to the poor and the miserable. Give learning to the ignorant. Give health to the sick. Give peace and justice to society.
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3. Utopian Communities
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The Oneida Community New York, 1848 John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886) Humans were no longer obliged to follow the moral rules of the past. all residents married to each other. carefully regulated “free love.”
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Secular Utopian Communities Individual Freedom Demands of Community Life espontaneity eself-fulfillment ediscipline eorganizational hierarchy
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Brook Farm West Roxbury, MA George Ripley (1802-1880)
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Original Plans for New Harmony, IN New Harmony in 1832
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3. Penitentiary Reform Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) 1821 first penitentiary founded in Auburn, NY R1-5/7
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Dorothea Dix Asylum - 1849
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4. Temperance Movement Frances Willard The Beecher Family 1826 - American Temperance Society “Demon Rum”! R1-6
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Annual Consumption of Alcohol
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“The Drunkard’s Progress” From the first glass to the grave, 1846
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“Father of American Education” Horace Mann (1796-1859) discouraged corporal punishment established state teacher- training programs R3-6
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The McGuffey Eclectic Readers Used religious parables to teach “American values.” R3-8
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Noah Webster edevelopment of an American dictionary eStandardized spelling R3-8
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Women Educators ecurriculum: math, physics, history, geography. e train female teachers Emma Willard (1787-1870) Mary Lyons (1797-1849) e 1837 she established Mt. Holyoke first college for women.
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7. “Separate Spheres” Concept “Cult of Domesticity” eA woman’s place was in the home e An 1830s MA minister: The power of woman is her dependence. A woman who gives up that dependence on man to become a reformer yields the power God has given her for her protection, and her character becomes unnatural!
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Early 19c Women 1.Unable to vote. 2.Legal status of a minor. 3.Single could own her own property. 4.Married no control over her property or her children. 5.Could not initiate divorce.
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Cult of Domesticity = Slavery The 2 nd Great Awakening inspired women to improve society. Angelina GrimkéSarah Grimké e Southern Abolitionists R2-9
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8. Women’s Rights Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1848 Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments R2-6/7
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9. Abolitionist Movement 1816 American Colonization Society created gradual, voluntary emancipation. British Colonization Society symbol
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Abolitionist Movement eCreate a free slave state in Liberia, West Africa. GradualistsImmediatists
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William Lloyd Garrison (1801-1879) eImmediate emancipation with NO compensation. eSlavery was a moral, not an economic issue. R2-4
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The Liberator Premiere issue January 1, 1831 R2-5
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The Tree of Slavery—Loaded with the Sum of All Villanies!
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Black Abolitionists David Walker (1785-1830) Fight for freedom rather than wait to be set free by whites.
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Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) 1845 The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass 1847 “The North Star” R2-12
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Sojourner Truth (1787-1883) or Isabella Baumfree 1850 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth R2-10
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Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) eHelped over 300 slaves to freedom. e$40,000 bounty on her head. eServed as a Union spy during the Civil War. “Moses”
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