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Religion and Reform (1812–1860)
Witness History: Another Great Awakening
A Religious Awakening
A Reforming Society
The Antislavery Movement
The Women’s Movement
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A Religious Awakening
The Second Great Awakening Changes America
Main Idea: In the early 1800s, some Protestant preachers believed that Americans had
become immoral and religious participation was crucial to the country’s future. This led to the
Second Great Awakening, which lasted for nearly half the century.
Non-Protestants Suffer Discrimination
Main Idea: The preachers of the Second Great Awakening were Protestant. By the mid1800s, well over half of all Americans were also Protestant. Non-Protestants were in the
distinct minority and faced discrimination.
Utopias and Transcendentalism
Main Idea: In the early 1800s, many Americans turned to Protestant churches, while some
formed new religious groups. Still others, including the Utopians, Shakers, and
Transcendentalists, sought different routes to try to fashion a more perfect society.
Witness History: Religious Revival
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Main Ideas
Color Transparencies: Growing Interest in Religion
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A Religious Awakening (continued…)
Map: Mormon Migrations, 1830-1848
Infographic: Brook Farm: Living the Utopian Dream
Map: Communal Societies Before 1860
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Reading Skill: Identify Main Ideas
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Growing Interest in Religion
MAP
Mormon Migrations, 1830-1848
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Brook Farm: Living the Utopian Dream
MAP
Communal Societies Before 1860
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A Reforming Society
Reforming Education
Main Idea: Other reforms in the Second Great Awakening were in the field of education,
including the public school movement. This was an argument to establish tax-supported
public schools.
Helping the Ill and Imprisoned
Main Idea: Americans who had little or no voice in how they were treated were of special
concern to many reformers. That was one reason why many reformers worked tirelessly to
help Americans who were imprisoned or mentally ill.
The Temperance Movement
Main Idea: Many reformers blamed alcohol abuse for the industrial era’s problems. As a
result, reformers launched the temperance movement, an organized effort to end alcohol
abuse and its associated problems.
Witness History: Improving Society
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Understand Effects
Color Transparencies: Political Cartoons: The Temperance Movement
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Political Cartoons: The Temperance Movement
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The Antislavery Movement
Life Under Slavery
Main Idea: Slaves, who numbered about 2 million by 1830, struggled in their lives of captivity,
knowing that they were at the mercy of slaveholders.
The Lives of Free Blacks
Main Idea: Despite their freedom, free blacks suffered from persistent racial discrimination.
The Fight Against Slavery
Main Idea: By 1804, all states north of Maryland had passed legislation to end slavery. In
1807, bringing new slaves to any part of the United States from Africa was banned. Still,
slavery was an established institution in the South, where slaves played an important role in
the economy.
Working Against Abolition
Main Idea: Despite the growing call of abolitionists, most Americans continued to support
slavery. The voices against abolition came from both the slave states of the South and the
free states of the North.
Witness History: The Evils of Slavery
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Summarize
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The Antislavery Movement (continued…)
Color Transparencies: African Americans in the South
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Contrast
Comparing Viewpoints: Should Slavery Be Abolished?
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African Americans in the South
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Should Slavery Be Abolished?
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The Women’s Movement
Women Work for Change
Main Idea: In the 1800s, American women’s freedoms and rights were sharply limited. Their
idealized domestic existence was too limiting for many women. Largely as a result of the Second
Great Awakening, women of the early 1800s began to take on more active roles in public life.
Women Begin the Fight for Rights
Main Idea: Real progress in women’s rights began in the 1830s when many urban middle-class
northern women began to hire poor women to do their housework and had more time to think
about the society in which they wanted to raise their children. At this same time, women began to
see their own social restrictions as being comparable to slavery and began to work for rights.
Women Convene in Seneca Falls
Main Idea: The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention attracted hundreds of men and women, including
Frederick Douglass. The convention resulted in few concrete improvements in women’s rights. It
did, however, mark the beginning of the women’s movement in the United States.
Witness History: Equality for Women
Note Taking: Reading Skill: Identify Causes and Effects
Chart: Political and Economic Status of Women in the Early 1800s
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The Women’s Movement (continued…)
Infographic: History-Makers of the Early Women’s Movement
History Interactive: More information about the early women’s movement
Color Transparencies: Political Cartoons: Seneca Falls Convention
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Political and Economic Status of Women in the Early 1800s
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History-Makers of the Early Women’s Movement
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Political Cartoons: Seneca Falls Convention
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