Chapter 8 Reforming American Society Religion Sparks reform
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Chapter 8: Reforming American Society Religion Sparks reform
Question of the Day Based on your guided reading assignment from Chapter 8 -1, who do you believe is the most important reformer in the section? Why are the accomplishments of this individual important?
Agenda: March 12 Period F: Question of the Day Homework: People and Ideas: Charles Finney, Dorothea Dix and 8 -2 Guided Reading Go over Chapter 8 -1 Guided Reading Answers on Board PPT Notes Chapter 8 -1 Period A/B: Question of the Day Homework: Chapter 8 -2 Guided Reading Go over Chapter 8 -1 packet. Chapter 8 -1 PPT notes Period C: Chapter 7 Test. Homework: Chapter 8 -1 Packet
People and Ideas: Charles Finney 1. How did Finney’s Views on Salvation differ from those of other ministers? How might this have contributed to his desire for reform? Unlike other ministers, Finney believed that it was the responsibility of the people to repent and act. The old Calvinist belief stated that the “spirit” would come to you. Disagreed with predestination. 2. In what ways did Finney reach out to the community? How did he expand the role of women in the Church? Finney worked as the president of Oberlin College which was the first college to accept blacks and women. He also encouraged women and men to go to church together and discuss religion together. Other preachers of the time considered these meetings as “promiscuous” He also encouraged social reform and promoted abolitionism
People and Ideas: Charles Finney 1. According to Finney, what moral obligations did women and men have? How did his actions as the president of Oberlin College reflect his desire to put his plans into action? Men and women have the obligation to actively reform society. His role at Oberlin College backed up his views by accepting Blacks and women. 2. Explain why Finney became such a controversial figure in the Presbyterian Church. His views that sinning is voluntary is a departure of Presbyterian beliefs. His preaching of revivals and social actions went against the old belief.
Primary Source: Dorothea Dix 1. According to Dix’s Report, How were the mentally ill forced to live? The mentally ill were forced to live in filthy jail cells, cages, and stalls where they were chained or confined without being let outside. 2. Why do you think Dix took her findings to the MA legislature? She believed it was the legislators’ moral obligation to protect the mentally ill and hoped to convince them to take action to provide adequate and humane provisions for their case. 3. Do you think the examples of abuse drawn from Dix’s Notebook and journal strengthened or weakened the case? Explain The examples strengthened her case because they graphically and persuasively demonstrated the need for reform
1. Ante-Bellum— 1820 to 1860 • Romantic age • Reformers pointed out the inequality in society • Industrialization vs. progress in human rights • Primarily a Northern movement • Southerners refused reforms to protect slavery • Educated society through • newspaper and lectures • Areas to reform: Slavery women’s rights Industrialization public school Male domination temperance (alcohol) War prison reform
2. 2 nd Great Awakening---1820’s to 1840’s • religious revival vs. deists • Rise of Unitarians---believed in a God of love • Denied the trinity • heaven through good works and helping others • social conscience = social gospel • apply Christ’s teachings to bettering society • Contrasted with salvation by grace and getting to heaven through Christ • Baptists, Methodists, etc. 3. Formed utopian societies = collective ownership
The Second Great Awakening “Spiritual Reform From Within” [Religious Revivalism] Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality Temperance Education Abolitionism Asylum & Penal Reform Women’s Rights
Charles Finney conducted his own revivals in the mid 1820 s and early 1830 s He rejected the Calvinist doctrine of predestination adopted ideas of free will and salvation to all Really popularized the new form of revival
Charles Finney and the Conversion Experience New form of revival Meeting night after night to build excitement Speaking bluntly Praying for sinners by name Encouraging women to testify in public Placing those struggling with conversion on the “anxious bench” at the front of the church
2. Transcendentalism (European Romanticism) • Liberation from understanding and the cultivation of reasoning. ” • “Transcend” the limits of intellect and allow the emotions, the SOUL, to create an original relationship with the Universe.
Transcendentalist Thinking § Man must acknowledge a body of moral truths that were intuitive and must TRANSCEND more sensational proof: 1. The infinite benevolence of God. 2. The infinite benevolence of nature. 3. The divinity of man.
The Transcendentalist Agenda § Give freedom to the slave. § Give well-being to the poor and the miserable. § Give learning to the ignorant. § Give health to the sick. § Give peace and justice to society.
The Rise of African American Churches Revivalism also spread to the African American community The Second Great Awakening has been called the "central and defining event in the development of Afro. Christianity“ • During these revivals Baptists and Methodists converted large numbers of blacks
The Rise of African American Churches This led to the formation of all-black Methodist and Baptist churches, primarily in the North African Methodist Episcopal (A. M. E. ) had over 17, 000 members by 1846 Beginning in 1830, Began holding Conferences of freed African Americans in the North
Educational Reform • In 1800 Massachusetts was the only state requiring free public schools supported by community funds §Middle-class reformers called for tax-supported education, arguing to business leaders that the new economic order needed educated workers
Horace Mann (1796 -1859) “Father of American Education” e children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officials e children should be “molded” into a state of perfection e established state teachertraining programs R 3 -6
Educational Reform §Under Horace Mann’s leadership in the 1830 s, Massachusetts created a state board of education and adopted a minimum-length school year. §Provided for training of teachers, and expanded the curriculum to include subjects such as history and geography
Educational Reform §By the 1850 s the number of schools, attendance figures, and school budgets had all increased sharply §School reformers enjoyed their greatest success in the Northeast and the least in the South §Southern planters opposed paying taxes to educate poorer white children §Educational opportunities for women also expanded §In 1833 Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coeducational college. §Four years later the first all-female college was founded — Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts
The Asylum Movement Dorothea Dix, a Boston schoolteacher, took the lead in advocating state supported asylums for the mentally ill She attracted much attention to the movement by her report detailing the horrors to which the mentally ill were subjected being chained, kept in cages and closets, and beaten with rods In response to her efforts, 28 states maintained mental institutions by 1860
Asylums and Prison Reform Dorothea Dix also discovered that people were placed in prisons for debt, people were subjected to cruel punishment and children were not treated any different than adults She is responsible for helping eliminate sentencing for debt, ending cruel punishment and getting states to establish juvenile court systems She argues that people can change if they are placed in proper environments and given an education
Chapter 8: Reforming American Society Religion Sparks reform
1. Ante-Bellum— 1820 to 1860 • Romantic age • ___________________ • Industrialization vs. progress in human rights • Primarily a Northern movement • __________________ • Educated society through • newspaper and lyceum meetings • Areas to reform: _____________ _______________
2. 2 nd Great Awakening---1820’s to 1840’s • religious revival vs. deists • Rise of Unitarians---believed in a God of love • ______________ • heaven through ______________ • social conscience = social gospel • apply Christ’s ________________ • Contrasted with salvation by ________________________ • Baptists, Methodists, etc. 3. Formed utopian societies = ___________
The Second Great Awakening “Spiritual Reform From Within” [Religious Revivalism] Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality ___________ ______
Charles Finney conducted his own revivals in the mid 1820 s and early 1830 s He rejected the ______ doctrine of _____ adopted ideas of free will and salvation to all ___________________
Charles Finney and the Conversion Experience New form of revival Meeting ________________________________ Speaking bluntly ______________________________ Placing those struggling with conversion on the “anxious bench” at the front of the church
2. Transcendentalism (European Romanticism) • Liberation from understanding and the cultivation of reasoning. ” • “__________________________
Transcendentalist Thinking § Man must acknowledge a body of moral truths that were intuitive and must TRANSCEND more sensational proof: 1. ______________. 2. ______________. 3. ______________.
The Transcendentalist Agenda § Give _______________________. § Give peace and justice to society.
The Rise of African American Churches Revivalism also spread to the ______________ The Second Great Awakening has been called the “_____________“ • __________________________________________________________________
The Rise of African American Churches This led to the formation of all-black ______________________________ African Methodist Episcopal (A. M. E. ) had over ___________ Beginning in 1830, Began holding Conferences of ______________________________
Educational Reform • In 1800 Massachusetts was the only state requiring free public schools supported by community funds §Middle-class reformers called for ____________________ educated workers
Horace Mann (1796 -1859) “Father of American Education” e children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officials e children should be _________________ _ established state _____________ e R 3 -6
Educational Reform §By the 1850 s the number of schools, attendance figures, and school budgets had all increased sharply §School reformers enjoyed their greatest ___________________________________________ §Southern planters opposed paying taxes to educate poorer white children §Educational opportunities for women also expanded §In 1833 Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coeducational college. §_____________________
The Asylum Movement Dorothea Dix, a Boston schoolteacher, took the lead in advocating ____________________________________ She attracted much attention to the movement by her report detailing the horrors to which the mentally ill were subjected ______________________________________________ In response to her efforts, _________________________________________
Asylums and Prison Reform Dorothea Dix also discovered that people were placed in _____, people were subjected to cruel punishment and ________________ She is responsible for helping eliminate sentencing for debt, ending cruel punishment and getting states to establish juvenile court systems She argues that people can change if they are placed in proper environments and given an education
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