1. Reform Movements

2. Unit 10 page 2 – “2nd Great Awakening leads to Reform Movements”
Outside of Flap:
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Outside of Flap:
Care of Mentally Disabled
Dorthea Dix – building of new hospitals for mentally ill, deaf & blind
Horace Mann
Opening of public schools (mostly North)
More private schools
Abolition
1807 Congress bans importation of Af slaves in U.S.
– Abolition movement grows
– Underground RR begins to make impact & abolition joins women’s movement
Separate jails for men/women/children
Mission of prisons = rehabilitation
Outside of Flap:
Prison Reform
Better working conditions
10 hour work day
Lowell Mills girls
Outside of Flap:
Women’s Rights
Some states prohibited or banned the sale of alcohol
Outside of Flap:
Temperance

3. Unit 10 page 2 – “2nd Great Awakening leads to Reform Movements”
Renewal of religious faith
Helping others (good Samaritan)
Want to reform – make things better
1790’s – early 1800s 2

4. Unit 10 page 3
Back of flap:
-Abolition Movement inspires women’s rights movement
-1st convening/meeting of women in the U.S. = beginning of women’s rights/suffrage movement
Notebook paper under the flap:
Organized by Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments modeled after DOI
“All men & WOMEN are created equal.”
Gained property rights but NOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE

5. Unit 10 page 3 P-began fight for suffrage/voting rights
E-Fought for workers’ rights (10 hour workday)
S-allowed women to be successful in other fields
*Elizabeth Blackwell – 1st female doctor
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Leader of women’s suffrage
Wrote “Declaration of Sentiments & Grievances”
Abolitionist & active in Temperance Movement
Organized Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony
Key spokesperson
Published The Revolution
Abolition
Women’s suffrage
Right for women to own property
Equal pay
Lucretia Mott
Abolitionist
Religious reformer
Helped organize Seneca Falls Convention

6. Unit 10 page 4 People who wanted slavery to end
Did not want slavery to spread west
1804 – all states NORTH of PA outlawed slavery
1807 – Congress banned IMPORTATION of slaves
1830 = # of abolitionists
“Ain’t I a Woman?”
SOJOURNER TRUTH
Escaped slavery
Advocate for equal rights for men and women
Recruited Af Am to fight in Civil War
William Lloyd Garrison
Published The Liberator
Organized New England Anti-Slavery Society
Frederick Douglass
Accomplished orator & writer (spoke about cruel treatment)
Published North Star
Abolitionist newspaper
Escaped slave
Leading Af. Am. abolitionists

7. Unit 10 page 5 Grimke Sisters
Raised on South Carolina slave holding farm
Traveled North
Became Quakers
Spoke out against slavery
Harriet Tubman
“Conductor” of Underground Railroad
Escaped slave
Supported by abolitionists
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 1853
Book that depicts HARSH realities of slavery
N=Increase support for abolition
S=banned sale of book

8. U10-pg 6 “Romanticism” ART Music
John James Audubon Slave
Drew Am wildlife/birds Spirituals
Hudson River School Gospel
Paintings depict romantic landscapes Music
= nature at center “Battle Hymn of
3 Themes : the Republic”
1. Discovery 2. exploration 3. Settlement (Union – Civil War)
Albert Bierstadt’s = River landscapes: a promise for “Dixie”
a new beginning for the nation (Confederacy – CW)
Influence of European Art that stressed: the 1)Individual 2) Imagination 3) Creativity and Emotion
Drew inspiration from nature
Nathaniel Hawthorne – “Scarlett Letter”
Wrote about morality
Edgar Allan Poe – tales of mystery
James Fenimore Cooper – “Last of the Mohicans”
Herman Melville – “Moby Dick”
Impact of Fine Arts – 1. Increases in educated population
2.. Financial ability to participate in Fine Arts

9. U10-page 7 “Transcendentalism”
American Literary, political & PHILOSOPHICAL movement
Early 19th century (1800s)
Critics of contemporary (current/normal) society
Because “unthinking conformity” – just do what every body else does
***Spiritual world is more important than physical****
Leaders
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Encouraged CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE-Don’t obey laws that you don’t agree with
Think!
Didn’t believe in MX-AM War or slavery so didn’t pay taxes
Emily Dickenson
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain