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The fires of perfection, 1820-1860 (Ch.12)
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Main Points Origins of Reform Reformers Abolition Women’s Rights
Economics Social Costs Reformers Abolition Women’s Rights
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The Market Revolution Industrialization Manufacturing Cities Expansion
New Markets
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Early Developments Factories Interchangeable Lowell Mill Girls
Mass production Interchangeable Lowell Mill Girls Massachusetts Wages s
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Railroads, 1860 Expansion & mobility Markets Information Time
Production Lower Cost Employment
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Social Costs of market rev
Immigration Low wages Pushed off land Competition Poverty Inequality Pollution
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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
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Religious Reform 2nd Great Awakening Temperance Charles G. Finney
Self control Anti-Materialism Work Temperance
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American Temperance Society, 1826
Domestic Violence Poverty Persuasion Self control
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Other Reform Movements
Institutions: Jails, insane asylums, schools, hospitals Utopias: Shakers & the Oneida Community
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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…”
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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
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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
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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
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Women’s rights Women=slaves Constitution rights Equality Property
Children Grimke’ Sisters Lucretia Mott
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Seneca Falls Convention
New York, 1848 1st national convention Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Equality Vote
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Women’s Rights Susan B. Anthony Speaker Elizabeth Cady Stanton Writer
Quaker, single Speaker Elizabeth Cady Stanton Married Writer Middle-upper class
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Conclusions, @ 1850s Market Revolution
Industrial Expansion & Transportation Reform Movements Temperance Abolition Women’s Rights
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