2.  Second Great Awakening: begins a century of reform work in America  Reform work attacks poverty, alcoholism, illiteracy, abuse of women and declining moral values  Important people:  Charles Finney: people have the power to change themselves  Lyman Beecher: good people make a good nation

3.  Temperance: an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption  Caused people to lose control  Threat to family life

4.  What was “the pledge”?  Name a group that was active in ending alcohol consumption.  Who was William Lloyd Garrison?  What did they speak against?  How did people react to the radical abolitionists?

5.  Abolition: movement to end slavery  Key Figures:  Nat Turner: organized a slave revolt in Virginia  Harriet Beecher Stowe: wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that criticized slavery

6.  Describe the first reaction to feminism.  What happened in Seneca Falls, NY?  What did the Declaration of Sentiment state?  Did women get any rights after the Declaration?