1. Unit 10
Notes

2. Reforms in the 1800’s Abolition Woman’s Rights Movement Education
Care for mentally ill, deaf, blind
Prisons
Temperance

3. Leaders of the era
Frederick Douglass – leading African-American abolitionist, accomplished orator and writer
Susan B. Anthony – key spokesperson for the 19th century women’s suffrage movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton – leader of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement ,called for the  first convention of women’s movement in Seneca Falls, wrote the “Declaration of Sentiments” which was approved at the Seneca Falls Convention

4. Frederick Douglas
Abolitionist speaker
Spoke about his life as a slave

5. The Abolitionist Movement

6. Sojourner Truth
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Escaped slavery with infant daughter
Sued and won case to get son out of slavery
Spoke out against slavery

7. Abolitionist Publications
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
The North Star (nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper in the U.S. by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.)
The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831)

8. Women’s Suffrage Movement
Susan B. Anthony…American civil rights
leader…introduceed women's suffrage into the United States.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton…social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer.

9. Declaration of Sentiments
Document signed at Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Author…Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Purpose…"grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women."

10. Reform Movement achievements
Women…no voting rights but now on the public conscience
Gained property rights
After Seneca Falls Convention many more conventions held.
100 signers (of the Declaration of Sentiments) only one still alive in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment passed.

11. Reform Movement achievements
Shorter work day
New hospitals/schools
Schools for the deaf and the blind
Orphanages
Hospitals/help for the mentally ill
Prison reforms

12. Lucy Stone Women’s rights activist Spoke out against slavery
Established the “Woman’s Journal” magazine

13. Second Great Awakening
a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States
Motivated reformers
Increased both class and regional differences

14. John James Audubon Studied and painted American birds
Provided a new understanding of anatomy and animal behavior
Inspired future naturalists

15. Walt Whitman Realism (as a literary genre)
Considered Father of American Free Verse
Wrote “Leaves of Green”

16. Mark Twain
“Huckleberry Finn”
Publication date 1884

17. Hudson River School
Landscapes
Connection with nature
American West

18. American Art and Liturature
Often focused on nature
Transcendentalism…core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both people and nature.
…had faith that people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.

19. Music
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”…hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe
…links the judgment of the wicked at the end of time (New Testament) with the American Civil War.

20. Music “Dixie”…also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie”
…likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a synonym for the Southern United States.