Reform & The Second Great Awakening

Second Great Awakening

A religious movement that leads to an increase in religious faith throughout America. Its idea that anyone can choose salvation leads to the widespread idea that anyone can make a change.

Temperence Movement

Campaign to stop drinking alcohol.

Institutional Reform

Improving working conditions- safety, pay, and hours.

Education Reform

Makes education available to the public.

Revival

To bring back in large numbers.

Abolitionist Movement

The movement to ban slavery.

Suffrage

The right to vote.

Woman’s Rights Movement

The movement to give women full legal equality with men (especially in voting), including full educational opportunity and equal compensation.

Seneca Falls Convention

A woman’s rights convention where they write the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Organized the Seneca Falls Convention. Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions and other feminist works. Passionate supporter.

Lucretia Mott

Organized the Seneca Falls Convention. Didn’t care much for voting rights. Thought the solution was extreme.

Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave and abolitionist who lectured in the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and taught northerners about slave life. Wishes for abolition to be achieved by peaceful means.

Harriet Tubman

Abolitionist and conductor on the underground railroad. Rescued almost 70 people from slavery.

William Lloyd Garrison

Wrote the abolitionist paper “The Liberator.” Wanted immediate abolition with no repayment to the slave owners.

Sojourner Truth

Draws huge crowds speaking for abolition. Legal name is Isabella Van Wagner.

Horace Mann

The “Great Equalizer” and founder of public education.

Dorthea Dix

Drew attention towards the unfair treatment of mentally ill people and prisoners in prisons. Created mental asylums that treated the mentally ill as people.