1. Evaluate the role of religion in the reform movement
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2. Macro Concepts Status Reform
The rank or grade of a person’s place in society
The method of fixing, improving and correcting [change for the better]

3. Micro Concepts Perfectionism Sectionalism Slavery Abolition
A religious and social movement that sought gender equality and communalism
Loyalty to certain section of a country [South, North, East, West]
The deprivation of freedom
The movement seeking the elimination of slavery
Freedom given to slaves by law
Perfectionism
Sectionalism
Slavery
Abolition
Emancipation

4. Necessary Evil
Most slave owners realized that slavery and oppression of other humans was wrong.
Many slave owners formed relationships based on trust with their slaves.
When confronted by abolitionists slave owners and supporters claimed slavery was a necessary evil to maintain their financial survival on farms.

5. Abolitionists
People who believe in ending slavery were called abolitionists.
Abolitionists were mostly whites despite the fact that most slave owners were also white.
William Lloyd Garrison risked his life to speak out against slavery. He demanded immediate emancipation for slavery.
The Grimké sisters came from a slave owning family in South Carolina and spoke out against slavery and its evils.

6. David Walker
Walker was born in North Carolina in 1785 to a free mother and an enslaved father.
He moved around frequently to different free slave enclaves [towns] and ended up joining the Massachusetts abolitionist movement
He gave anti-slavery speeches and wrote an important booklet called the Appeal. His whole point of view was to convince his fellow blacks that they should “wake up,” join together and oppose slavery by non-violent means if possible.

7. Frederick Douglass
Born a slave in Maryland he learned valuable trades such as carpentry and machinery operations.
He witnessed horrifying treatment of slaves by masters including murder.
He was able to escape to the North where he had previously been hired out.
He was taught the fundamentals of reading by a master’s wife and then later on by white children to whom he paid money.
As a freeman he became a wealthy public speaker and advisor to presidents.

8. Charles G. Finney
Finney was a Presbyterian preacher who was an important part of the Second Great Awakening
His sermons [verbal religious speeches] were intentionally emotional in order to inspire his congregation.
His goal was to inspire social change especially the abolishment of slavery.
He also supported and participated in educational integration [the schooling of blacks and women together].

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