Completing the Revolution 9/18/02

Period of – Economic Growth – Industrialization – Urbanization – Immigration

Period of – Changing Roles for Women Hardening of cotton/slave south – Increase in free black community

Period of – Increased Individualism and Competition (Popular especially in the South and West)

Increased Individualism and Competition – Many Americans left behind in Movement West – Many Americans not included in the new economy or Democracy

These changes disrupted Established Patterns – Led to Reform Attempts To re-establish Benefits of Democracy that seemed lost

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – The sale of Whiskey was viewed by many Evangelicals as A Symbol of Sabbath Violation A Destroyer of Homes

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – Crusade Began with emphasis on temperate use

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – Crusade Ended as a Crusade to prohibit the sale or manufacture of Alcohol

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – American Society for the Promotion of Temperance organized in 1826

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – "Maine Law" – by 1855 Maine New York Indiana Iowa Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – Many believed that alcohol was an evil introduced and perpetuated by Catholic Immigrants

Social Improvement Movements Temperance – Part of Anti-Immigrant, Anti- Catholic Prejudice and Nativism

Social Improvement Movements Prison and Asylum Reform – More Humane Treatment – Reform rather than Just Punished

Social Improvement Movements Prison and Asylum Reform – Punishment to "Fit the – Crime” – Dorothea Dix

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Affluent American Women Were freed from household chores – Hired housekeepers

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Affluent American Women Were freed from household chores – Industrialization of Many Household Tasks, like

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Industrialization of Many Household Tasks, like Weaving Clothes Making

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Had smaller families Children became a cost rather than an asset

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Had smaller families Freed women of Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing Duties

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Affluent American Women Assumed the role of Moral and home leader of the Family

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Affluent American Women Men left home to "Bring home the Bacon" Wives sought literacy to train offspring

Social Improvement Movements Status of Women – Affluent American Women Married now for emotional rather than economic reasons

Social Improvement Movements Affluent American Women – Formed "Life Partnerships" – Romantic Love became popular

Social Improvement Movements Affluent American Women Were free to enter Reform Movements Had free time, More education

Women's Rights Movement Women's involvement in other social improvements led many to question their own social status, such as...

Women's Rights Movement Property Rights Divorce Rights Opportunity to Education

Women's Rights Movement 1848-Seneca Falls Convention

Women's Rights Movement Seneca Falls Convention – 1 st National Convention of Women's Rights

Women's Rights Movement Seneca Falls Convention – Published "Declaration of Sentiments"

Women's Rights Movement Seneca Falls Convention – Movement focused on Suffrage after 1850

Religion Mormons form : Second Great Awakening

Religion Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints) –Founded by Joseph Smith in NY 1820 –Led By Smith to Nauvoo, Illinois –Led by Brigham Young to Salt Lake City Utah, attempt to create the State of Deseret

Mormons

: Second Great Awakening

Anti-Slavery Movements William Lloyd Garrison ( ) issued the first number of The Liberator on January 1, 1831

Anti-Slavery Movements

1847b. Martin R. Delany moves from Pittsburgh to Rochester in order to found with and work with Frederick Douglass on a new paper, North Star

Anti-Slavery Movements