1. Reforming American Society

2. A Spiritual Awakening Inspires Reform
The Second Great Awakening-Widespread Christian movement to awaken religious sentiments.
Revival meeting- Revive faith through impassioned preaching.

3. Unitarians and Transcendentalists
Unitarians- emphasized reason as a path to perfection.
Transcendentalism- emphasized that truth could be discovered intuitively by observing nature and relating it to one’s own emotional and spiritual experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. The African American Church
Slaves in the south interpreted stories as a promise of freedom
Northern African Americans were able to form their own churches. These churches often became political, cultural, and social centers for African Americans.

5. Slavery and Abolition
Abolition- movement to free African Americans from slavery
William Lloyd Garrison- Editor of the Liberator
Frederick Douglass- Outspoken critic of slavery. Owned newspaper, The North Star

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7. Turner’s Rebellion
Nat Turner attacked four plantations and killed whites.
Slave owners oppose abolition- some wanted emancipation for slaves. Most chose to tighten restrictions on all African American to prevent them from plotting insurrections.

8. Women and Reform
Women mobilize for Reform- Women abolitionist raised money distributed literature, and collected signatures for anti slavery petitions to Congress.

9. Education for Women
Work for abolition and temperance accompanied gains in education.
Gain in education improved women’s health reform.
Women rights movements emerges- Male abolitionist discriminated against female abolitionist. Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the Women’s Rights convention.

10. Women and Reform
Seneca Falls convention- called for a resolution for a women’s right to vote
Sojourner Truth- outspoken abolitionist refuted the arguments that because she was a women she was weak, and because she was black, she was not feminine.