1. Reforming American Society What changes occurred in 1800s America?

2. Spiritual Awakening Inspires Reform People can improve themselves & society ! 1.2 nd Great Awakening (1790s-1840s) a. Revive Christina faith in days-long Christian meetings b. church attendance from 1out of 6 to 1 out of 15 2. Unitarians & Transcendentalism a. Ralph Waldo Emerson form new religious group b. Truth can be discovered by observing nature & relating it to one’s own emotions & spiritual experience 3. African- American Churches a. So = use sermons as sources of inspiration & hope b. No = political, social, & cultural centers

4. Abolition of Slavery 1.Abolition: movement to end slavery a. Do we send Slaves back to Africa or let them become citizens? 2.William Lloyd Garrison: radical abolitionist a. 1831: published antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. Freedom by any means necessary 3. Frederick Douglass: Former slave turned abolitionist a. 1847: published antislavery newspaper, the North Star. Freedom w/o violence http://www.yo utube.com/wa tch?v=Su- 4JBEIhXY

5. 1.Involved in abolition & temperance movements 2.Education & health awareness for women expand 3. Women’s Rights Movement begins a. Seneca Falls Convention, NY (1848, 1 st Women’s rights convention b. Main leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth Women and Reform