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Ch 14 Social Reform

2. Second Great Awakening
Religious movement/revival in 1800’s
Inspired people to become involved in missionary work & social reform

3. Temperance Movement People encouraged to drink moderately
Cause: 2nd Great Awakening, break-up of families, poverty, crime
Result: Some states banned sale/manufacture of alcohol (prohibition)

4. Women’s Rights Movement
#1 goal – suffrage (meaning = right to vote for women)
Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony = “suffragists” (seeking the right to vote)
Most women in early women’s movement were Quakers. (Quakers believed in equal rights.)
1848 women organized Seneca Falls
Convention – this meeting marked the beginning of women’s rights movement.

5. William Lloyd Garrison
Encouraged growth of anti-slavery movement
1st white abolitionist to call for the IMMEDIATE AND COMPLETE emancipation of enslaved people
Created “American Antislavery Society” in 1832
Paper – “Liberator”

6. Frederick Douglass Famous African American Abolitionist
Born slave and escaped from slavery 1838
Captured and returned to slavery
Joined “Anti-Slave Society:
Powerful speaker against slavery

7. Harriet Tubman Escaped from slavery
Most famous conductor of underground railroad
Went back to south 19 times to help approx. 300 slaves escape
Known as “Moses of her people”

8. Underground Railroad
Network of safe house (south to north)

9. Sojourner Truth
“new name” she gave herself after escaping slavery (meaning = day she walked into the light of God’s truth)
Advocate of both abolition and women’s movement
Once a slave in NY. NY banned slavery in 1827.

10. Seneca Falls Convention
Wrote “Declaration of Sentiments & Resolutions” (Similar to Declaration of Indep)
Listed women’s grievances against men
Goal = end all laws that discriminated against women
#1 goal = suffrage = extend the right to vote to women (19th Amendment – 1920 –women got right to vote)

11. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Re: injustices of slavery (how bad slavery really was)
Stowe was a transcendalists = meaning she stressed the importance of following one’s innner voice (conscience) and breaking the bonds of prejudice

12. Dorthea Dix Fought against “mentally ill” being locked up in jail
Advocate for persons with mental disability

13. Horace Mann Leader of education reform
Lengthened school year to 6 months
Improved school curriculum
Doubled teacher’s salaries
Developed better methods to train teachers

14. Public Education By 1850 – all states
School – free and supported by taxes
Teachers should be trained
Children should be required to attend school (“compulsory education”)

15. Utopian Societies New Harmony – Indiana Communal life Celibacy
No individual possessions
1814: 700 members

16. Oneida Community (New York)
Believed in “complex marriages” (married to the group/not one person)
Communal property, meals, & raising/discipline children
1874: 270 members