1. Chapter 7: Social and Cultural Movements in Antebellum America
Kristen Yost
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2. What role should women play in the new republic?
The Role of Women in Antebellum America: The Cult of Domesticity/Republican Motherhood
What role should women play in the new republic?

3. Republican Motherhood

4. Factory Workers in Lowell

5. Changing the Role of Women in Antebellum America: Characteristics of the Women’s Movement

6. The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

7. Issues Fought During the Seneca Falls Convention
Women’s suffrage
Women’s right to retain property after marriage
Greater divorce and child custody rights
Equal educational opportunities

8. Dorothea Dix

9. Abolition and Abolitionists: The Second Great Awakening
“Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.”
~Charles Finney

10. American Colonization Society

11. William Lloyd Garrison
“immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves”
“Let Southern oppressors tremble…I will be as harsh as Truth and as uncompromising as Justice…I am in earnest–I will not retreat a single inch–and I WILL BE HEARD!”

12. Frederick Douglass
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”

13. Sarah Moore Grimké
“I ask no favor for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet off our necks.”
“I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.”

14. Transcendentalism and Utopian Communities: Transcendentalism
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. Utopian Communities

16. Best-Known Utopian Communities

17. Cultural Advances: Education

18. The Hudson River School