Reforming American Society What changes occurred in 1800
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Reforming American Society What changes occurred in 1800 s America?
Spiritual Awakening Inspires Reform • People can improve themselves & society! 1. 2 nd Great Awakening (1790 s-1840 s) a. Revive Christian faith in days-long Christian meetings b. church attendance from 1 out of 15 to 1 out of 6 2. Unitarians & Transcendentalism a. Ralph Waldo Emerson forms new religious group b. Truth can be discovered by observing nature & relating it to one’s own emotions & spiritual experience 3. African- American Churches a. South = use sermons as sources of inspiration & hope b. North = political, social, & cultural centers
Abolition of Slavery 1. Abolition: movement to end slavery a. Do we send Slaves back to Africa or let them become citizens? 2. William Lloyd Garrison: radical abolitionist a. 1831: published antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. Freedom by any means necessary 3. Frederick Douglass: Former slave turned abolitionist a. 1847: published antislavery newspaper, the North Star. Freedom w/o violence http: //www. yo utube. com/wa tch? v=Su 4 JBEIh. XY
Women and Reform 1. Involved in abolition & temperance movements 2. Education & health awareness for women expand 3. Women’s Rights Movement begins a. Seneca Falls Convention, NY (1848, 1 st Women’s rights convention) b. Main leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth
