1. The Second Great Awakening Temperance No Drunks Asylum & Penal Reform Education No Dummies Women’s Rights No Discrimination Abolitionism No Cruelty

2. Second Great Awakening Encouraged new reform movements!!!! Let’s use all of our newfound religious inspiration to battle evil!!! Right-o!!!!

3. The Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) Joseph Smith (1805-1844)

4. 1846-47: Mormons move to Utah Brigham Young (1801-1877) )

5. Educational Reform Horace Mann - “Father of American Education” Children should be “molded” to a state of perfection. Promoted more schools, expanded curriculum.

6. Educational Reform Noah Webster Dictionary helped standardize the American language. *** Slaves in the South were legally forbidden from learning to read and write.

7. Penitentiary Reform Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) Mental health reform. Helped establish that insanity was a disease of the mind.

8. Dorothea Dix Asylum - 1849

9. Temperance – The Drunkard’s Progress “From the first glass to the grave”, 1846

10. Women in Revolt 1848 – Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments: “All men and women are created equal.” Lucretia MottElizabeth Cady Stanton

11. Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – people had the right to disobey unjust laws. Truth transcends the senses Self-reliance Self-improvement Thanks, Henry! Don’t mention it! Civil disobedience – Can you think of any historical figures that may have been influenced by Thoreau’s writings?

12. Which reform movement do you think was the most significant? Why?