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Chapter 8
Religion and Reform
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2nd Great Awakening
Evangelical preachers
New religious groups
Non Protestants suffer
discrimination
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Mormons
Catholics
Jews
Interest in Religion
Mormon Migration
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Utopian Societies – “Perfect”
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Lived together communally
Brook Farm, New Harmony
Transcendentalists – nature;
transcend religion
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Communal Societies
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Reformers
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Education – Public school movement
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 Noah
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Webster (dictionary)
Ill and Imprisoned
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Dorothea Dix – mental hospitals
Prison system – penitentiary movement
Temperance Movement (moderation)
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End alcohol abuse
American Temperance Society
Temperance
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Antislavery Movement
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Cruel treatment; worked dawn to dusk
Resistance – Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison – American Anti-Slavery
Society, The Liberator
Abolitionism spreads – Frederick Douglass
Southerners cling to slavery; defend it
Abolitionist women realized women had no
rights either! Began women’s movement
American Colonization Society – movement to
return to Africa (Liberia)
Slave States
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Women’s movement
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No property, vote, rights; education
limited
Women led reform efforts; slow going
Disagreement on aims
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention – Declaration
of Sentiments; first conference
Mid 1800’s had gained some rights
Status of Women