CHAPTER 15
New Movements in America
Section 1: America’s Spiritual
Awakening
Section 2: Immigrants and Cities
Section 3: Reforming Society
Section 4: The Movement to End
Slavery
Section 5: Women’s Rights
SECTION 1
America’s Spiritual
Awakening
Question:
Who were the key people
and what were the key ideas
of the American romantic
movement?
SECTION 1
America’s Spiritual
Awakening
Definition of Romantic Movement
artistic movement that developed out of the movement in Europe,
in which American painters and writers believed in bringing a
simpler, more individual point of view to their works
Influential Ideas
romantic movement in Europe, spirituality, the simple life, nature,
individual’s uniqueness
Focus of Work
landscape, nature, history, slavery, American individualism
and democracy
Artists and Writers
Thomas Cole, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman
SECTION 2
Immigrants and Cities
Question:
What were the problems and
benefits of growing U.S. cities
in the mid-1800s?
SECTION 2
Immigrants and Cities
Growth of U.S. Cities
Problems
Benefits
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• job opportunities
• growth of middle class
• entertainment and cultural
life
overcrowding
poorly built housing
poor sanitation
no permanent fire or police
force
• diseases and epidemics
• lack of public services
SECTION 3
Reforming Society
Question:
What were the causes and
effects of the American
temperance movement?
SECTION 3
Reforming Society
The Temperance Movement
Cause: belief that alcohol
abuse led to social problems,
such as family violence, poverty,
and criminal behavior
Cause: prevention of alcohol
abuse
Cause: worry over the effects
of alcohol
Effects:
Maine and 12 other
states passed laws
making the sale of
alcohol illegal
SECTION 4
The Movement to End Slavery
Question:
By what methods did
abolitionists and supporters
of slavery spread their
messages?
SECTION 4
The Movement to End Slavery
Spreading the Message
Working to End Slavery
Working to Keep Slavery
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speaking tours and lectures
newspapers
pamphlets and essays
poetry, plays, and slave
narratives
• abolitionist societies
• essays
• petitions to Congress
newspaper editorials
political speeches
threats to abolitionists
federal laws
SECTION 5
Women’s Rights
Question:
What were the goals of the
women’s rights movement
and how did they hope to
achieve these goals?
SECTION 5
Women’s Rights
gain the right
to vote
take advantage
of better educational
opportunities
getting men
to take part in
the fight
gain the right to
sit on juries
Women’s
Rights
married women
get the right to control
their own property
organizing
more
effectively
CHAPTER 15
Chapter Wrap-Up
1. How did the Second Great Awakening affect
reform movements of the mid-1800s?
2. How did U.S. immigration between 1840
and 1860 affect the economy?
3. Choose three of the following people and
explain how they worked to end slavery:
Robert Finley, David Walker, William Lloyd
Garrison, Angelina and Sarah Grimk,
Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.