Transcript Reforming American Society

Revivalism
PROBLEMS TO
SOLVE
•Held large, public
revival meetings
• Challenged the
belief that God had (religious
gatherings)
predestined your
•Influential
salvation
(Heaven/Hell)
speakers used
• Stressed personal moving sermons
responsibility—your
to motivate
actions matter
followers
Lack of Faith & Personal
Responsibility
Charles G.
Finney
METHODS USED
Transcendentalism
PROBLEMS
TO behind
METHODS
What
lies
us USED
SOLVE
and
what
lies before
usindividual
Personal
Responsibility
•Stressed
for actions
strength & a simple
are tiny
matters compared
•Believed that
life
•Truthus.
found in
tofaith
what
lies
could
be within
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
nature
found without
•Used literature to
large, loud, public
call for human rights
Ralph
revival Waldo
meetings.Emerson
(wanted to end
slavery, reform
institutions &
prisons)
School & Prison Reform
Horace Mann
Dorathea Dix
PROBLEMS TO
SOLVE
Lack of Education
•Few received a
formal education
beyond 10 yrs
Inhumane treatment of
Mentally ill and Prisoners
•Mentally ill were
jailed with
prisoners, both
treated harshly
METHODS USED
•Fought for public
schools for all
•Published fact
finding reports,
spoke out
publicly, stressed
rehabilitation for
prisoners
Slavery & Abolition
Frederick
Douglass
PROBLEMS TO
SOLVE
•Douglass toured the
north to speak out
2. Apathy toward slavery
against slavery
in the North
•became a walking
• Douglass &
contradiction of what
Garrison helped the South believed
to fuel the
about African
Americans
abolitionist
movement in the •Both Douglass &
Garrison published
North
anti-slavery
newspapers
1. Slavery in the South
William Lloyd
Garrison
METHODS USED
Women & Reform
PROBLEMS TO
SOLVE
1. Women’s Rights
2. Temperance (alcohol
abuse)
3. Abolition of Slavery
Responsibility
Susan B.
Anthony
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
METHODS USED
•Held large public
protests
•Held Women’s
Rights
• Women called for
convention
rights equal to that
(Seneca Falls)
of men
• Saw temperance as •Spoke out
through rallies &
a family issue
• Were more sensitive various writings
to slavery than were
men
•Revivalists/Transcendentalists attempted to reform the
problems of morality & personal responsibility
•Reformers also attempted to fix public education & gain
humane treatment for the mentally ill & prison reform
•Women’s rights, and the Abolitionists movements also
gained ground
•Workers also started to mobilize for fair treatment from
employers
•Reformers organized protests/strikes, spoke out against
problems, printed newspapers, drew public attention to
problems to bring about reform & change