1. Reform Movements between 1800 and 1860

2. Second Great Awakening
In the early 1800s a Religious fervor sweeps the nation.
Revivalist ministers preached all over the nation, especially on the Frontier and a
spirit for change and reform swept across the country.
Charles Grandison Finney

3. Mormons, Transcendentalists and Utopian Communities
While mainstream religions grew in large numbers, during this time many smaller religious sects also spring up, including groups like Mormons, the Transcendentalists as well as other Utopian Communities.
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

4. 1) How did the 2nd Great Awakening spark religious and social change, as well as religious discrimination?
2) How did differing religious beliefs contribute to an increase in the sectional divisiveness of the country?
2nd Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney/evangelism
Richard Allen/AME Church
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young / Mormons
utopian communities
Brook Farm/New Harmony
Transcendentalism
Emerson and Thoreau
Quakers
Brook Farm today
Richard Allen

5. Education, Mental Hospital System, and Prison Reform, and the Temperance Movement
The reform and revival spirit of the second great awakening spurred a movement to reform other aspects of society as well.
Listed above are some of the most famous reform movements.
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann

6. 1) How is change influenced by the actions of citizens?
2) In what ways did religious influence impact the effectiveness of social movements in the first part of the 19th century?
Horace Mann
Public school movement
Dorothea Dix
Temperance movement
Neal Dow
Rehabilitation
Prison Reform
Pennsylvania System
Auburn Model
Neal Dow

7. Abolitionism
Springing from the reforming fervor of the Second Great Awakening, abolitionism picked up steam.
During this time, abolitionist newspapers like the Liberator were founded and Books such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought widespread attention to the issue.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner

8. 2) What were other arguments for and against abolitionism?
1) How did both sides of the abolitionist movement use religion to support their viewpoint?
2) What were other arguments for and against abolitionism?
William Lloyd Garrison/ The Liberator
emancipation
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
David Walker
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“necessary evil”
Gag Rule
The American Anti-Slavery Society
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
David Walker

9. The (early) Women’s Movement
Women who were a central part of the social reform and abolitionist movements decided that they too deserved equal rites.
This led to the beginning of the women’s movement.
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott

10. 1) How was the women’s movement connected to abolitionism and other reform movements of the time?
2) How did different groups of leaders disagree with regard to what should be the aims of the women’s rights movement?
Susan B. Anthony
Women’s Rights
The Grimke Sisters (Quakers)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Margaret Fuller
Seneca Falls Convention
Amelia Bloomer
Married Women’s Property Act
The Declaration of Sentiments
Amelia Bloomer
Susan B. Anthony
Margaret Fuller