1. Chapter 3 Section 5 Reforming American Society
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OBJECTIVE: UNDERSTAND THE REFORM MOVEMENTS IN 19TH CENTURY AMERICA.

2. I. A Spiritual Awakening Inspires Reform
Second Great Awakening
1790s-1840s, brings religious feeling.
Revival meetings last for days; impassioned preaching, Bible study.
Membership in churches rises dramatically.

3. II. Slavery and Abolition
Abolition Movement
The movement to end slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
Extreme White Abolitionist
Publishes The Liberator, demands immediate emancipation. Willing to use violence to end slavery.
Frederick Douglass
Former slave, speaks out against slavery.
Begins his own antislavery newspaper, The North Star.
Believed slavery could be ended without violence.

4. II. Cont… Turner’s Rebellion Virginia, 1831
Nat Turner led violent slave rebellion; about 60 whites killed.
Turner, many followers captured and killed.
Slave Owners Oppose Abolition
Rebellions angers whites; restrictions on African Americans tightened.
Proslavery advocates claim slavery is benevolent institution.

5. III. Women and Reform Women Mobilizes For Reform
Prevailing customs restrict women to home, family.
Work on abolition, temperance (the practice of drinking little or no alcohol), treatment of mentally ill, prisoners.

6. III. Cont… Women’s Rights Movement Emerges
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott call women’s rights convention.
1848 Seneca Falls Convention approves declaration of women’s rights.
Sojourner Truth speaks for African American women.

7. Topic What Did it Promote… 1. 2nd Great Awakening 2. Abolitionism
3. Turner’s Rebellion
4. Seneca Falls Convention