Wave of revivals spread across the country
Methodists and Baptists huge increase in numbers
- Move from temperance to legal prohibition
- Maine law of 1851
Women were treated like second class citizens
"Cult of domesticity” the home was a woman's special sphere
Idea of "republican motherhood"
Women Reformers:
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton both advocated for suffrage for women
Women's Rights: Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
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