2. Obj- SWBAT- Describe how the reform movements of the 1800s affected life in the United States DO NOW- When and how did women receive the right to vote?

3. Revivalism Charles G. Finney PROBLEMS TO SOLVE Lack of Faith & Personal Responsibility Challenged the belief that God had predestined your salvation (Heaven/Hell) Stressed personal responsibility—your actions matter METHODS USED Held large, public revival meetings (religious gatherings) Influential speakers used moving sermons to motivate followers

4. Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson PROBLEMS TO SOLVE Personal Responsibility for actions Believed that faith could be found without large, loud, public revival meetings. METHODS USED Stressed individual strength & a simple life Truth found in nature Used literature to call for human rights (wanted to end slavery, reform institutions & prisons)

5. The leaders of the Second Great Awakening preached that their followers had a sacred responsibility to improve life on Earth through reform, especially for the disadvantaged

6. School & Prison Reform Horace Mann Dorathea Dix PROBLEMS TO SOLVE Lack of Education Few received a formal education beyond 10 yrs Inhumane treatment of Mentally ill and Prisoners Mentally ill were jailed with prisoners, both treated harshly METHODS USED Fought for public schools for all Published fact finding reports, spoke out publicly, stressed rehabilitation for prisoners

7. Slavery & Abolition Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison PROBLEMS TO SOLVE 1.Slavery in the South 2.Apathy toward slavery in the North METHODS USED Douglass toured the north to speak out against slavery Both Douglass & Garrison published anti- slavery newspapers

9. Women & Reform Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton PROBLEMS TO SOLVE 1.Women’s Rights 2.Temperance (alcohol abuse) 3.Abolition of Slavery METHODS USED Held large public protests Held Women’s Rights convention 1848 (Seneca Falls) Spoke out through rallies & various writings

10. Women’s rights advocates seek to break the Cult of Domesticity The belief that women should only work in the home to perform domestic duties (children, house, family) Women call for property rights, custody rights for their children The right to vote, and sit on juries Campaign for equal political rights Women’s Rights

11. Public Drunkenness remained a serious problem Women believed that alcohol use by men was hurting families and society Women became the leaders of the temperance movement. Temperance Movement