19 Chapter 3 Section 5 Reforming American Society

#19 Chapter 3 Section 5 Reforming American Society OBJECTIVE: UNDERSTAND THE REFORM MOVEMENTS IN 19 TH CENTURY AMERICA.

I. A Spiritual Awakening Inspires Reform Second Great Awakening 1790 s-1840 s, brings religious feeling. Revival meetings last for days; impassioned preaching, Bible study. Membership in churches rises dramatically.

II. Slavery and Abolition Movement The movement to end slavery. William Lloyd Garrison Extreme White Abolitionist Publishes The Liberator, demands immediate emancipation. Willing to use violence to end slavery. Frederick Douglass Former slave, speaks out against slavery. Begins his own antislavery newspaper, The North Star. Believed slavery could be ended without violence.

II. Cont… Turner’s Rebellion Virginia, 1831 Nat Turner led violent slave rebellion; about 60 whites killed. Turner, many followers captured and killed. Slave Owners Oppose Abolition Rebellions angers whites; restrictions on African Americans tightened. Proslavery advocates claim slavery is benevolent institution.

III. Women and Reform Women Mobilizes For Reform Prevailing customs restrict women to home, family. Work on abolition, temperance (the practice of drinking little or no alcohol), treatment of mentally ill, prisoners.

III. Cont… Women’s Rights Movement Emerges Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott call women’s rights convention. 1848 Seneca Falls Convention approves declaration of women’s rights. Sojourner Truth speaks for African American women.

Topic 1. 2 nd Great Awakening 2. Abolitionism 3. Turner’s Rebellion 4. Seneca Falls Convention What Did it Promote…