1. Second Great Awakening & Social Reform
AP US History

2. Second Great Awakening CC #15 3:18 to 6:13
Event
Rebirth of religion in the early 1800s
Causes
Society wasn’t as religious in the Revolutionary Era so Americans returned to their religious roots
Empowerment of common people
Evangelical preachers and camp meetings (Charles Finney, Peter Cartwright)
Results
Attempts to improve American society; numerous reform movements
New American religions: Mormons, Millerites

3. Second Great Awakening
When the churches are … awakened and reformed, the reformation and salvation of sinner will follow, going through the same stages of conviction, repentance, and reformation. Their hearts will be broken down and changed. Very often, the most abandoned profligates are among the subjects. Harlots and drunkards, and infidels, and all sorts of abandoned characters, are awakened and converted. - Charles Finney, 1834

4. Second Great Awakening
But the idea which now begins to agitate society has a wider scope than our daily employments, our households, and the institutions of property. We are to revise the whole of our social structure, the state, the school, religion, marriage, trade, science, and explore their foundations in our own nature; we are to see that the world not only fitted the former men, but fits us, and to clear ourselves of every usage which has not its roots in our own mind. What is a man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life? - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

5. None of the utopias worked out
Attempts to create a perfect society in American life
New Harmony – socialist experiment
Brook Farm – intellectual community
Oneida – “free love”
Shakers – no reproduction
None of the utopias worked out

6. Document Analysis
What were the problems and what did people do about it? A – Women’s Rights (Rush, Dix, Mann) B – Abolition (Garrison, Douglass, Fitzhugh) C – Other Movements (Cartoon, Dix, Mann)

7. What were the problems and what did people do about it?
Outcomes
What were the problems and what did people do about it?
A – Women’s Rights – Republican Motherhood, Cult of Domesticity
CC 16 8:55 to end
B – Abolition – American Colonization Society, Nat Turner, Southern Defense of Slavery (L, E, S) CC 15 8:15 to end
C – Other Movements – Temperance Pledges/Blue Laws, Asylums, Public Education (North)

8. Argumentation
Evaluate the reasons for the emergence of social reform in the period
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Write Thesis
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