1. Chapter 8
Religion and Reform

2. Key Ideas 2nd Great Awakening Evangelical preachers
New religious groups
Non Protestants suffer discrimination
Mormons
Catholics
Jews

3. Interest in Religion

4. Mormon Migration

5. Key Ideas Utopian Societies – “Perfect”
Lived together communally
Brook Farm, New Harmony
Transcendentalists – nature; transcend religion
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau – Walden

6. Communal Societies

7. Key Ideas Reformers Ill and Imprisoned
Education – Public school movement
Horace Mann
Noah Webster (dictionary)
Ill and Imprisoned
Dorothea Dix – mental hospitals
Prison system – penitentiary movement
Temperance Movement (moderation)
End alcohol abuse
American Temperance Society

8. Temperance

9. Key Ideas Antislavery Movement Cruel treatment; worked dawn to dusk
Resistance – Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison – American Anti-Slavery Society, The Liberator
Abolitionism spreads – Frederick Douglass
Southerners cling to slavery; defend it
Abolitionist women realized women had no rights either! Began women’s movement
American Colonization Society – movement to return to Africa (Liberia)

10. Slave States

11. Key Ideas Women’s movement
No property, vote, rights; education limited
Women led reform efforts; slow going
Disagreement on aims
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention – Declaration of Sentiments; first conference
Mid 1800’s had gained some rights

12. Status of Women