1. Women’s Movement By
Mr. Harnell

2. Second Great Awakening: A religious movement; people joined the church; wanted life better

3. Temperance: Banning alcohol

4. Maine becomes first state to ban alcohol (1851)

5. 18th Amendment 1920: Passage of the 18th Amendment
Banned manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol in the U.S.

6. 21st Amendment
Repealed (voided) the 18th Amendment in 1933

7. The Reform Spirit: Abolitionists
Abolitionists: Reformers who worked to abolish slavery
Religious groups felt they must end slavery, “All Men are Created Equal”

8. Educational Reform
Horace Mann: Leader in Educational Reform in Massachusetts
Longer school year, teacher education, Normal Schools
The idea of publicly funded education

9. State universities spring up in 1800’s
1895: “Duluth Normal School”
Became UMD in 1947

10. American Colonization Society
1816: Formed a group to resettle African Americans in Africa
Voluntarily free slaves & send to Africa
Buy their freedom & send to Africa

11. Liberia
The American Colonization Society created Liberia: “place of freedom”
12,000-20,000 African Americans sent

12. Most African American did not want to go to Liberia—born here

13. William Lloyd Garrison
Founded a newspaper: “The Liberator”
The Liberator: country’s leading abolitionist newspapers

14. William Lloyd Garrison
He wanted freedom now! (1830’s)
He founded a new group: New England Antislavery Society

15. Frederick Douglass Born a slave in Maryland
Taught himself how to read and write
Escaped to Boston

16. Frederick Douglass He was a dynamic, motivating speaker
Joined forces with William Lloyd Garrison in 1838

17. Frederick Douglas Traveled to London Friends purchased his freedom
Worked as an advisor for Abraham Lincoln

18. The Grimke Sisters Sara and Angelina Grimke
Born in South Carolina….moved to Philadelphia

19. The Grimke Sisters Gave speeches to large crowds
Criticized—women shouldn’t speak out!
Told firsthand accounts of slavery

20. Sojourner Truth
Gained freedom when slavery was banned in New York in 1827.
Worked for Women’s Rights and Abolitionism

21. Lucretia Mott A Quaker women Speaker Abolitionist Temperance
Worker’s Rights
Helped Fugitive Slaves

22. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Joined forces with Mott
Helped form a women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY 1848
Demanded women’s sufferage
Should be allowed to enter all professions

23. 1848--Seneca Falls First Women’s Rights Conference held in the U.S.
What did they talk about?

24. Susan B. Anthony Abolitionist from New York Worked for termperance
Worked for women’s rights
Called for Coeducation: teaching of boys and girls together! Eeewww…
Organized the Daughters of Temperance—national organization

25. Suffrage
Suffrage means the right to vote

26. Wyoming
First state to grant women the right to vote in 1890

27. 19th Amendment
1920: women were given the right to vote

28. Education Some felt that women could be capable teachers
Schools can train women to be “healthful, intelligent, and succesful wives, mothers and housekeepers”

29. Some women even learned science and Math!
Women eventually were able to own property
Women could divorce their husbands if they were chronic drinkers in Indiana

30. Elizabeth Blackwell Became the first female Doctor in the U.S.
Studied medicine
Became famous and gained acceptance with her male peers