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Second Great Awakening
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Christians help Society
—2nd Great Awakening 1st Great Awakening in 1740’s in colonial America Fiery preachers at revivals Individual responsibility to improve themselves their own salvation Christians help Society
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Charles G. Finney .
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Traveling “tent meetings”
Inspire Christians with enthusiasm His “Social Gospel” offered salvation to all Father of Modern Revivalism
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Charles Grandison Finney
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Sabbatarian Reform Movement
restrictions on Sunday mail, Sunday business Sunday travel, etc. Seventh Day Adventists
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Revivals .
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Tent meetings Personal commitment to God through the Gospel of JC Through good works, society could be changed
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Mormons - Joseph Smith - Brigham Young
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Joseph Smith
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Brigham Young
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Reform movements .
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Intended to transform society
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Reform Timeline
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Horace Mann .
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Horace Mann
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Reforms Results State board of Ed. = Oversight Free public schools
Education needed for Democracy to survive with expanded electorate Abolish corporal punishment Professional teachers 1. States across country set aside $$$ 2. free public becomes “norm” 3. Students double
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rehabilitation .
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States began to help prisoners become law-abiding citizens
Before -flogging -beatings -public stocks
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Dorothea Dix .
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Dorothea Dix Prisons Mental hospitals
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Prison reform .
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Dix found the mentally ill were being jailed with the prisoners
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Abolitionist movement
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Mix of African and Christian beliefs
Slave religion Mix of African and Christian beliefs Gave hope
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Underground Railroad .
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Routes of escape Underground Railroad
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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Nat Turner Southern reaction: SLAVE CODES Illegal to read No groups
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Denmark Vessey .
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The revolt, which was scheduled to occur on July 14, 1822, was betrayed before it could be put into effect. As rumors of the plot spread, Charleston was thrown into a panic. Leaders of the plot were rounded up.
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Vesey and 46 other were condemned, and even four whites were implicated in the revolt. On June 23 Vesey was hanged on the gallows for plotting to overthrow slavery.
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"Vesey's example must be regarded as one of the most courageous ever to threaten the racist foundations of America.
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Sectionalism required negotiation about whether new states would be admitted as free or slave. Congress was reluctant to admit new states to the Union because these states might disrupt the balance of power between free states and slave states.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison
Editor of The Liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison
Total Freedom NOW Founded American Anti-Slavery Society Total Equal Rights
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Grimke Sisters .
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Grimke Sisters
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Became famous lecturing to women AND men about abolition
Women’s rights in 1830’s First women to speak of Women’s Rights in America
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Frederick Douglass .
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Frederick Douglass PBS DVD 2-1-4
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Escaped slave Taught himself to read as slave Published the North Star encouraging slaves to escape Powerful orator to northern white audiences
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David Walker .
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Handout
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Appealed to slaves to rise up against their masters
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His pamphlet outlawed in South
David Walker His pamphlet outlawed in South 2nd Great Awakening brought more people to view slavery as anti-Christian Slavers would go to Hell.
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American Colonization Society
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-1,100 people relocated -Liberia as their colony
Good Trying to right a wrong Legitimate funding, land, and support Freedmen only Bad Trying to get rid of the strongest leaders (freedmen) Most considered the U.S. as their home
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Robert Finley .
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Founder of the American Colonization Society
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South’s justification--racism
1. necessary 2. benefited the North 3. labor force was superior 4. fortunes tied with owner 5. Christianity supported 6. Could not survive without owners 7. inevitable
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Slavery divides a Nation
Most against abolitionists in North 1836 Gag rule Abolitionists stay vocal and persistant!
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Temperance movement .
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With industrialization….
Crime Sickness Poverty Neglected families ……attributed to alcohol
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Handout
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Women’s Rights Movement
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Lucretia Mott .
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Organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott Organizer of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Planned the Seneca Falls convention
SHE was the first to use the convention as a call for the right to vote
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Seneca Falls Conference
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Stanton, Anthony, and Mott
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PBS DVD 1-4-5
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Seneca Falls Conference
1848 1st organized call for women’s suffrage Frederick Douglass Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Susan B Anthony & more
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Declaration of Sentiments
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The Declaration of Sentiments
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Susan B. Anthony .
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Sojourner Truth .
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Sojourner Truth
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Utopian Communities .
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Believed manual labor good for the soul
Transcendentalist movement led to communities trying to achieve group harmony Most failed miserably—not realistic
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New Harmony .
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Share everything and live in Harmony
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Oneida .
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Shared everything Every man was married to every woman
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Brook Farm .
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Brook Farm
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Attracted intellectuals like Emerson and Thoreau
Everyone share in agricultural work
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William Lloyd Garrison
Printed the Liberator William Lloyd Garrison
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