The fires of perfection, 1820-1860 (Ch.12)
Main Points Origins of Reform Reformers Abolition Women’s Rights Economics Social Costs Reformers Abolition Women’s Rights
The Market Revolution Industrialization Manufacturing Cities Expansion New Markets
Early Developments Factories Interchangeable Lowell Mill Girls Mass production Interchangeable Lowell Mill Girls Massachusetts Wages 1820-1830s
Railroads, 1860 Expansion & mobility Markets Information Time Production Lower Cost Employment
Social Costs of market rev Immigration Low wages Pushed off land Competition Poverty Inequality Pollution
Converging ideas Political-economy Religious Impulse Connection between economics and politics Economic condition and political views Gov’t involved with economy Class-based policies Expanding democracy Interest groups Context of “Great Awakening” Populist opening of religious hierarchy Moral basis for reform “Applied religion” Christian brotherhood Inequalities of the market are un-Christian
Religious Reform 2nd Great Awakening Temperance Charles G. Finney Self control Anti-Materialism Work Temperance
American Temperance Society, 1826 Domestic Violence Poverty Persuasion Self control
Other Reform Movements Institutions: Jails, insane asylums, schools, hospitals Utopias: Shakers & the Oneida Community
Abolition American Colonization Society, 1817 David Walker, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World “America is more our country, than it is the whites…”
Abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison Immediate abolition The Liberator, 1831 Immediate abolition Total Equality American Anti-Slavery Society Philadelphia 1838 Bi-racial, women, mass printing, horrors of slavery, moral appeals
Black Abolitionists Frederick Douglass 1845 Narrative… The North Star 1818 Maryland 1845 Narrative… The North Star Pro-constitution Sojourner Truth 1787 NY Preacher, speaker Women’s rights
Women’s Rights “Female roles” Children and the poor Church based Influence public Organize Discrimination in Abolition movement American Female Reform Society, 1839 Sexual equality in education, work & politics
Women’s rights Women=slaves Constitution rights Equality Property Children Grimke’ Sisters Lucretia Mott
Seneca Falls Convention New York, 1848 1st national convention Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Equality Vote
Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony Speaker Elizabeth Cady Stanton Writer Quaker, single Speaker Elizabeth Cady Stanton Married Writer Middle-upper class
Conclusions, @ 1850s Market Revolution Industrial Expansion & Transportation Reform Movements Temperance Abolition Women’s Rights