1. Reform Movements in the United States

2. Define the following words that are found in chapter 15, beginning on p Use the definitions as they appear in the chapter, at the bottom of the page. Please write the word, number them, and underline the word. No highlighters or other fancy writing or colors. Hand write on lined paper to be included with your notes.
Revival
Utopia
Temperance
Normal school
Civil disobedience
Abolitionist
Suffrage
Coeducation
Lecture
Author
Route
Capable
Ministry

3. Revival – religious meeting
Utopia – community based on a visions of the perfect society
Temperance – drinking little or no alcohol
Normal school – state-supported school for training high school graduates to become teachers
Civil disobedience – refusing to obey laws considered unjust
Abolitionist – person who sought the end of slavery in the United States in the early 1800s
Suffrage – the right to vote
Coeducational – the teaching of males and females together

4. 9. lecture – speech meant to provide information, similar to what a teacher presents
Author – writer of books, articles, or other written works
Route - Line of travel
Capable - Skillful
Ministry - The job of a religious leader

5. Before the Civil War … Life in the North Life in the South
Focus on manufacturing
Many cities and factories
Mostly free population
Most people were Republicans
Focus on agriculture
Rural communities
Large slave population
Most people were Democrats
Before the Civil War …

6. Social Reform

7. Reform sweeps the nation
What areas were reformed?
Religion
Education
Literature
Ban alcohol

8. Key Social Reformers Reformer Contributions Lyman Beecher Horace Mann
Wanted to protect people by banning alcohol
Lyman Beecher
Believed education led to opportunity and created the first normal school
Horace Mann
Thomas Gallaudet
Developed methods to teach those who couldn’t hear
Dorothea Dix
Educated people about poor conditions for prisoners and mentally ill.

9. Changes in Culture
Literature – Transcendentalism – listen to your conscience to make decisions. Emerson and Thoreau
Poetry – discussed the natural world. Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson
Artists – new American style – landscapes, holidays, rural life.

10. Abolitionists

11. Early Days
People had been asking for for the end of slavery since the Constitutional Convention
They wanted to gradually free slaves and wanted to send freed slaves to a colony in Africa called Liberia
In the 1830s, reformers started to press for different things.

12. Sarah and Angelina Grimke – lectured and wrote against slavery
William Lloyd Garrison – Editor of The Liberator
Harriet Beecher Stowe – wrote best selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Elijah Lovejoy – editor of anti-slavery newspaper who was killed by angry whites
Abolitionists
Frederick Douglass – former slave who was an influential speaker
Harriet Tubman – leader on the Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth – former slave who was a powerful speaker

13. Reactions to Abolitionists
Worry that freed African Americans would be able blend into society
Violent mobs and destroyed property
Southerners claimed that slavery was necessary to their way of life

14. Reform for Women

15. Seneca Falls Declaration
Called for:
equality for women
women’s right to vote
women’s right to speak publically
women’s right to run for office
Primary source

16. Notable Female Reformers
Reformer Contributions
Organized first women’s rights convention
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Had women’s suffrage included in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
Susan B. Anthony
Called for equal pay, college training for girls, and suffrage

17. Notable Female Reformers
Reformer Contributions
Elizabeth Blackwell
Graduated first in her class and achieved fame as a doctor
First person to discover a comet with a telescope and first woman in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Maria Mitchell

18. Achevments for WOmen More educational opportunities
Access to more jobs
Right to own property
Rights within marriage