Revival: A meeting to reawaken religious faith Second Great Awakening: The renewal of religious faith in the 1790’s and early 1800’s Temperance Movement: A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol

In the factories it was very noisy, loud, unsafe, and very dull. In the 1830’s the American workers put their stuff together and started cleaning up. The women in Lowell, Massachusetts, started a labor union. In 1836, the Lowell Mill owners bumped up the price of the rent of the company owned boarding houses where the woman slept and lived. About 1,500 women went on strike trying to stop work and get better living conditions. Other workers demanded for shorter hours and higher allowance. Jobs were very hard to find, and workers were afraid they would cause problems. The young labor movement suddenly fell down hill, but few workers still achieved their goals.

Horace Mann was a congress men until 1837, when he left and pursued a career in a new founded education program which he headed. After a few years he thought that a public school would be a good equal opportunity for kids to learn, rich or poor. He also thought that it would decrease the amount of crime in some places. He opened the first public school in Lexington, Massachusetts in Most of the first schools were established in the northern states and it was very rare that women would attend school.

The Second Great Awakening is the renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s. The preachers said anyone could choose salvation. This attracted to equality-loving Americans. Many revivals spread across the frontier. Settlers waited for Peter Cartwright to visit them. At 16, Cartwright, gave up a life of gambling and decided to join a Methodist church. Then, he was a minister and preached for over 60 years. In the eastern cities, revivals finally spread there. In these cities, former lawyer Charles Grandison Finney led huge revival meetings. He preached that “all sins consists in selfishness” and that religious faith led people to help others. These teachings awoke a spirit of reform. Americans started to believe they could make things better.

Created by churches, temperance societies formed a campaign against drinking alcohol. This was called the Temperance movement. To drink heavily was common in the 1800s. When workers spent most of their wages buying alcohol, they didn’t have enough money to support their families. This caused many women to join the movement. Speakers traveled across America having supporters sign a petition, and there were a million signatures by The movement was also supported by business men because they needed focused workers, which alcohol prevented. The movement succeeded and the first state to ban drinking was Maine in Thirteen other states passed similar laws until they were repealed in the 20 th century.

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