1. Reforming American Society
Section 5

2. Spiritual Awakening inspires reform
Second Great Awakening
1790s-1830s
Widespread Christian movement to revive religious faith
Chief forum were revival meetings
Unitarians
Religious group that shared with revivalism a faith in the individual but instead of appealing to emotion Unitarians emphasized reason as path to perfection
Ralph Waldo Emerson & Transcendentalism
New religion based on emotion & nature.

3. Abolitionism American Colonization Society –
William Lloyd Garrison – imd emancipation
The Liberator
Frederick Douglass
The North Star
Garrison and Douglass disagreed over violence
Nat Turner Rebellion 1831
Impact of Turner Rebellion on slave population
Proslavery advocates – Bible
Leaders of abolition movement were women

4. Women & reform Women were denied full participation in the community
Women participated in many reform movements such as :
Temperance
Education – Mary Lyon, Emma Willard
Improving Mental Health facilities - Dix
Women’s health - Blackwell
Abolitionism and
Women’s Rights, etc.

5. Women’s Rights Movement
Women were discriminated against when addressing World’s Anti-slavery Convention
Decided to reform their status.
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Demanded suffrage
Began convention with revised version of DOI
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth p. 149

6. Can individuals make a difference?
Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Women and Reform
Temperance
Education
Health
Seneca Falls – DOI
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Political Spectrum