1830-1860
The 2nd Great
Awakening
1.
Was in the “Burned
Over” District of NY,
and across the entire
nation.
2. A time of religious
renewal in the nation.
Promoted a need to
Find Jesus and God
3. Promoted Social
Reforms such as
Temperance
Abolition
Women’s Suffrage
CHARLES GRANDISON
FINNEY & PETER
CARTWRIGHT
LYMAN & HENRY WARD
BEECHER
Temperance
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2.
3.
The belief that
Alcohol is the root to
all evil in society.
The 1st Temperance
Society formed in
Boston in 1826, “The
American
Temperance Society”
1839 an organization
called the
“Washington
Temperance
Society”formed.
Members were called
“Washingtonians”
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2.
3.
Children and Women formed the “Cold Water Army”
which protested against alcohol outside of saloons.
Author’s like T.S. Arthur wrote novels such as, “Ten
Nights In A Barroom and What I Saw There.” (1854)
Neal S. Dow (Governor of ME) promotes the idea of
Complete Prohibition of Alcohol in 1851. Dow sets in
motion the idea that will become the XVIII Amendment
(Prohibition)
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1. Suffrage is the idea
and desire for equal
rights for women and
the right to vote.
2. Joined forces with
the Abolitionist
Movement to bring
equal rights for all
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1. Leader of the Suffrage
Movement.
2. Fights to end the
“Cult of Domesticity”
3. Creates the
“Declaration of
Sentiments”, a
Declaration of Women’s
Rights.
4. Established the
Women’s Rights
Convention in 1848, in
Seneca Falls, NY.
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2.
3.
4.
A movement universally opposed to Slavery and
supportive of equal rights for all individuals.
Abolition movements begin to gain strength
following the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the
expansion of “King Cotton” in the Southern
Economy.
In 1822 Denmark Vesey leads a failed slave revolt in
SC
In 1831 Nat Turner leads another failed slave revolt
which pushes Southerners to pass harsher slave
codes.
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2.
Famous Abolitionists:
William Lloyd
Garrison-Writes the
“Liberator” an
Abolitionist
Newspaper.
Fredrick Douglass:
Writes the “North Star”
Newspaper, recruits
others after writing his
autobiography on life
as a former slave
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3. Harriet Beecher
Stowe-Writes, “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin”
4. Harriet Tubman: A
Conductor on the
Underground Railroad,
known as Moses to
slaves.
5. By 1848 the “Free
Soil Party” is created.
Demands end to
slavery, “Free Soil, Free
Jobs, & Free Men”.