Notes

• Reglion sparks Reform

• Women and reform

• Savery and Aboliton

• the changing workplace

Second Great Awakening

• from 1800 to the 1830s, a series of religious reveals swept across America called the Second Great Awakening

• Evangelical ministers like Charles Finney used emotional, soul-shaking sermons to convert the masses

• The Second Great Awakening had an important impact on American history

• Joseph Smith created the Mormon Church

• New Utopian communities were created as many people wanted to live

• Devout Christians were committed to reforming society

Temperance Movement

• By 1800, Alcohol abuse was seen as a serious problem

• Alcohol was linked to crime, abuse, debt, work problems

• The Women Christian Temperance Union played an important role in the temperance movement

Public Schools

• By 1800, the US did not have a true education system for children

• Education reformers demanded that states create public schools for children

• by 1850, every state had publically funded schools

• Schools in the South and West were not very good

Womens Rights

• Women’s opportunities were limited by the cult of domesticity

• in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first women’s rights meeting, the Seneca Falls Convention

• Thus convention produced the Declaration of Sentiment, a list of demands including property rights for women and the right to vote

• meeting was important but failed to gain any major goals of the women's rights movement

Abolition

• “King Coton” led to a huge growth in the African slave population

• Northerners began to see slavery as immoral

• by the 1830s, all Northern states abolished slavery

• In the 1830s, abolitionism grew radical

Voting Rights

• before the 1800s, America was not very democratic

• by 1840, most states removed voting restrictions

Dates

• 1800-1830s: The Second Great Awakening

• 1848: Seneca Falls Convention

• 1850: every state had publically funded schools

• The 1830s: all northern states had banned slavery

Vocab

• Evangelical Ministers: Christian leaders who focus on biblical authority, personal conversion, and gospel spreading, often through emotional preaching and revivals.

• Abolitionism: THe desire to free all slaves