1. Community Movements 4. 1. III
Presented by, Erin and Brielle

2. Increasing numbers of Americans, inspired by new religious and intellectual movements, worked primarily outside of government institutions to advance their ideals.

3. Big Idea #I
Americans formed new voluntary organizations that aimed to change individual behaviors and improve society through temperance and other reform efforts.

4. American Anti-slavery Society- The American Anti- Slavery Society was the abolitionist organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison and others in The Society worked for immediate abolition for more than thirty years, publishing abolitionist materials, petitioning Congress, and hosting anti-slavery meetings, events, and lectures. Former slaves including Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown became major public figures through their appearances at the Society’s meetings
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American Temperance Society- Began in This led to over 2,200 temperance societies in five years and 170,000 men who took a pledge of abstinence from alcohol. Churches were the center of much of the activity. The society was most successful in the northern states.

5. Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments- 300 women and men turned out for the convention. At its conclusion, 68 women and 32 men had signed a document calling for American women to be extended the same civil and political rights that American men had, including suffrage. It asserted that women possessed the same natural rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as men.
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Oberlin College- college in Ohio, was the first institution that gave higher education to blacks and women.

6. Big Idea #II
Abolitionist and antislavery movements gradually achieved emancipation in the North, contributing to the growth of the free African American population, even as many state governments restricted African Americans’ rights. Antislavery efforts in the South were largely limited to unsuccessful slave rebellions.

7. William Lloyd Garrison’s “immediate and uncompensated” Emancipation- Abolitionism was the movement in opposition to slavery, often demanding immediate, uncompensated emancipation of all slaves. William was a radical in this movement.
Gradual Emancipation- slowly fading slavery out of the north states.
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American Colonization Society-
founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa

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Denmark Vesey’s rebellion 1822-
African Churches were frequently disrupted and had it's people arrested by whites.
Versey (an attendant of one of these churches) plotted a rebellion with other Church leaders
The church men rebelled, set fire to Charleston and killed white men.
Officials burned the church and restricted Charleston slaves even further.
Nat Turner’s rebellion 1831-
Lead the only sustainable and effective slave rebellion
Set a new wave of oppression legislation prohibiting education, movement, and assembly of slaves.

9. Big Idea #III
A women’s rights movement sought to create greater equality and opportunities for women, expressing its ideals at the Seneca Falls Convention.

10. Seneca Falls Convention-
Declaration of Sentiments-
Based off the Declaration of Independence
Related to women- what they thought they deserved
Wanted male signatures for the Declaration so that it would be considered “legitimate business”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton-
Suffragist, civil rights activists
Her efforts helped eventually pass the 19th amendment-allowing women to vote
Lucretia Mott-
Denied a seat at the Anti-Slavery Convention in London because of her gender
Leading voice in feminist and abolitionist movements
Head of the American Equal Rights Association
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Seneca Falls Convention-
1848, first ever women's convention in U.S.
Social, religious, and civil condition
Discussed rights in general