Chapter 15: Reforming Society
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America Stirs to New Ideas
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Immigrants and Cities
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Second Great Awakening, Utopian Communities
Irish & German Americans
Reforming Society
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Education, prisons, temperance (control alcohol)
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Abolition
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Women’s Rights
Historical Happening
February 14, 2014
Tammy Duckworth
lieutenant colonel
Do you agree with
allowing women soldiers
to participate directly in
combat? What should
be the qualifications?
What would be the
costs and benefits?
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Women have been allowed to
fly combat missions since the
1990’s but were not sent
directly into battle on the
ground.
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What just happened in this sketch?
Margaret Garner
We’ll Have A Test on
Chapter 15!
Or as I like to call it…A
Celebration of Learning!
• America Stirs to New Ideas
• Second Great Awakening
• Utopian Communities
• Immigrants and Cities
• Irish & German Americans
• Reforming Society
• Education, prisons,
• temperance (control alcohol)
• Abolition
• Women’s Rights
Immigrants…
1.
What two countries
sent waves of
immigrants to America?
(1840-1860)
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If you answered
Ireland and
Germany you are
Correct!
We learned about Immigrants…
2. Which country is Ireland?
Which is Scotland?
Which is England?
We learned about Immigrants…
5. Why did the Irish
come here?
Where did they tend
to settle?
The Potato Famine
6. In cities like Boston,
New York, Philly, and
Pittsburgh
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Potato Blight caused the Potato Famine
1 million starve
1 million leave Ireland
We learned about Immigrants…
7. Why did the
Germans come
here?
8. Where did they
tend to settle?
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Because of the failed
1848 Revolution
In WI, PA, OH, IN, MN
Mostly farmers and
skilled workers
Were not as poor as
Irish immigrants
Saxonburg
 Germantown
 Baden
 Wurtemberg
 Anyplace-burg
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Guten Appetit!
6. Food, language, skilled
craftsman and religious
denominations
"Gesundheit”
We learned about Immigrants…
9. What have the Irish
contributed to
American Culture?
10. What have the
Germans
contributed?
• Foods
• Christmas &
Holidays
• Skilled craftsman
• Many protestant
religious groups
Potato famine reduced Ireland’s
population
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Wexford
Donegal
Sligo
We learned about Immigrants…
11. Can you name three famous
Irish-Americans?
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If you’re not talking about the
basketball team, it’s
pronounced with a “k.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald famous
author
John Hancock, Andrew
Jackson, Davy Crockett
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President Kennedy, JFK)
Sandra Day O'Connor
Hey check out that Celtic Cross
We learned about Immigrants…
Don’t forget the Rooney family!
We learned about Immigrants…
12. What group opposed immigration and
felt threatened by immigrants?
We learned about Immigrants…
13. What political party did Nativists
form? What did they want?
 They formed the Know Nothing Party
 They wanted strict control of
immigration and citizenship laws.
We learned about Immigrants…
We learned about
Immigrants…
We learned about Immigrants…
14. What were tenements?
We learned about Immigrants…
14. Tenements were crowded, low
income housing areas for immigrants.
Let’s not forget Frederick Douglass,
we learned about him too!
15. He was an
escaped slave who
came to
Massachusetts.
 Many did not believe
he had been a slave
because he was
educated and an
excellent speaker.
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He was forced to
reveal his true
identity and then
hide out in
England until his
supporters raised
the money to buy
his freedom!
Underground Railroad
Check this out…
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This is Henry
“Box”
Brown. He
mailed
himself to
freedom!
Check this out…
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His journey from Richmond Virginia to
Philadelphia took 27 hours and covered
about 350 miles.
Check this out…
Levi and Catharine Coffin were legendary in helping
many former slaves escape to freedom in the
North. Levi is often referred to as the President of the
Underground Railroad.
Levi Coffin’s wagon
We learned about Social
Reform Movements… #16
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The Second Great
Awakening was a
period of
widespread
evangelism and
church involvement.
We learned about Social
Reform Movements…
16. The Second Great Awakening
motivated many people. They got
involved in these Social Reform
movements.
We learned about Social
Reform Movements…
17. Who were the
Harmonists?
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They’re an example of a
Utopian Community
They built Harmony, New
Harmony, and Old
Economy
They were prosperous
Ambridge grew out of Old
Economy
Harmonists at work in Old Economy
Harmony, Pennsylvania
built by German immigrants
18. We learned about Social
Reform Movements…
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Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
William Lloyd
Garrison
Charles Finney
Frederick Douglass
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Common School
Movement
Abolition
Second Great
Awakening
Prison Reform
We learned about Social Reform
Movements…
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Dixmont State Hospital
Dixmont State Hospital
We learned about Social
Reform Movements…
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Dixmont State Hospital was named for
Dorothea Dix.
We learned about Social
Reform Movements…
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People used to go
there to hunt for
ghosts and take
pictures because the
place was creepy.
They tore it down to
build a Wal-Mart.
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But a landslide
messed up that
plan.
We also learned about this
lady…
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Who is
she? What
happened
in this
picture?
Finally, we learned about the
early Women’s Rights Movement
19. Explain how the
Abolition movement
led to the Women’s
Rights movement.
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When women
wanted to speak out
against slavery,
they couldn’t! It
was a male
dominated world.
Finally, we learned about the
early Women’s Rights Movement
20. What were the
goals of the early
Women’s Rights
movement?
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Equal pay for equal
work
Equal legal and
property rights
Equal education
opportunities
The right to vote.
Finally, we learned about the
early Women’s Rights Movement
21. Who were some of
the leaders of the
early Women’s
Rights movement?
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Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Finally, we learned about the
early Women’s Rights Movement
22. What was the first
big convention for
women’s rights?
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The Seneca Falls
Convention. (New
York, 1848)
Finally, we learned about the
early Women’s Rights Movement
23. What document
did they produce
based on the
Declaration of
Independence?
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The Declaration of
Sentiments
Finally, we learned about the
early Women’s Rights Movement
24. When did women
finally get the right
to vote throughout
the United States?
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When the 19th
Amendment was
passed in 1920.
Wait a minute…
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25. Who were the
Transcendentalists
and what did they
believe?
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They believed
people could rise
above the material
things in life.
Ralph Waldo
Emmerson
Henry David
Thoreau
Wait a minute…
26. Who were the Romantics and what
did they believe?
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…unique perspective to the world that
is best expressed by emotion rather
than reason.
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This is not ‘chick flicks’ or romance
novels.
Abolition: the movement to
end slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Grimke Sisters
Harriet Beecher Stowe
27. What were the Southern
Arguments for slavery?
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Essential to the South’s economy
After Nat Turner’s rebellion, freeing
slaves isn’t even discussed (too dangerous)
Slavery protected African Americans?
Used Bible
Slaves were treated better than northern
factory workers
Racism
28. What was the American Colonization
Society? Why did most blacks oppose this
movement?
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The ACS wanted to send African
Americans to Africa to start a colony.
(Liberia) About 12,000 did. Many
opposed “repatriation” for a variety of
reasons.
28. What was the American Colonization
Society? Why did most blacks oppose this
movement?
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The were Born in the U.S.A. and had
helped build the country.