1. Religion and Reform
Focus Questions: What demands did women make? How did reform movements aim to change society?

2. Bellringer Part 2: List 3 details you notice
Bellringer Part 2: List 3 details you notice. Where is this taking place? What do you think is happening?

3. “soul-shaking” conversion
Charles G. Finney (1792 – 1895)
The ranges of tents, the fires, reflecting light…; the candles and lamps illuminating the encampment; hundreds moving to and fro…;the preaching, praying, singing, and shouting,… like the sound of many waters, was enough to swallow up all the powers of contemplation.
Describing an outdoor revival
“soul-shaking” conversion
R1-2

4. Charles Finney Emotional revival preacher of the era
Religious activism – or evangelism – was the duty of the Protestant
Evangelism fuels later reform movements

5. The Second Great Awakening
Definition: A religious revival movement in the US after 1800
What did Followers believe?
People need to go to Church more to change all the bad things about society
Everyone is responsible for finding salvation- anyone can go to Heaven

6. The Mormon “Trek”

7. Utopian Communities
Defined: Secluded communities seeking a Utopia or perfect place to live in harmony
Self-sufficient communities
Often only lasted for a few years
Popular examples: New Harmony, Indiana and Brook Farm, Massachusetts
Also fueled later reform movements

9. Transcendentalism
Defined: a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth in nature and personal imagination
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
and
Henry
David
Thoreau

10. What would you reform about Phillip O Berry?
Welcome Back to Class!
Writing Prompt #4
What would you reform about Phillip O Berry?
What would you reform in America today in 2011?

11. Reformer Jigsaw
Use the primary and secondary source documents in your folder to become an expert on your area of reform.
Complete YOUR section of the Reformer Chart & Be prepared to share what you learned with your group members!

12. Education Led by Horace Mann, MA Senator
Helped create a State Board of Education
Advanced idea of free public schools, teacher training, supported by state governments

13. Mental Illness and Prison
Dorothea Dix
Campaigned for states to build mental hospitals
Penitentiary Movement: criminals should feel penitence (regret) for their crimes

14. Dorothea Dix Asylum

15. The Temperance Movement
Temperance means drinking in moderation
Supporters believed alcohol led to crime, sickness, poverty, and neglected family life
No real success except for laws restricting the sale of alcohol

16. Annual Consumption of Alcohol

18. Setting the Stage: Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott

19. Women’s Rights Movement
Met in Seneca Falls, New York
1848
Key People: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth
Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments

20. Declaration of Sentiments
What did the women demand? Make a list of at least 4 specific things they demanded.
Were they being too hard on mankind?
How equal are men and women today in 2012?