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1. Starter • How would you reform the school board’s policy on tardies?

2. Antebellum Reform Movements A New Wave of Reform Before the Civil War

3. CHANGE YOUR REALMS OF CHANGE: *RELIGIOUS CHANGE *ABOLITION CHANGE SOCIAL CHANGE *LITERARY CHANGE *WOMEN’S RIGHTS CHANGE *EDUCATIONAL CHANGE EACH OF THESE CHANGES AFFECTED THE NEW COUNTRY.

4. Reasons for Reform • Similar to reasons for Cult of True Womanhood / Domesticity– • Barbara Welter – Women were supposed to be • Pious • Purity • Submission • Domesticity • Fear of rapid change (urbanization, industrialization, immigration…) • Desire to return to a less materialistic (money and “thing” centered) lifestyle • Religious fervor – “When things are wrong with society or there is progress, turn to GOD!”

5. Second Great Awakening • Renewed interest in religion • Traveling (itinerant) preachers • Religious revivals • Focus on emotion • Idea that anyone could be saved, anyone could preach • Participation of many social groups (African-Americans, women, slaves, etc.) • Influenced by Frenchman Alex de Tocqueville’s – Democracy in America • “…. there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

6. Camp Meetings • Multi-denominational gatherings that demonstrate fanatical fervor about God • Fiery speakers taught that the return of Jesus was imminent • Speakers were not college educated and opposed the orthodox customs – why? Popularity? • Methodism – fastest growing denomination 1800 – 70,000 1844– over 1 million • Charles G. Finney – Father of American Revivalism

7. New York • “Burned – over District” • Charles Finney, the father of American revivalism, who explained in the 1870′s that the region had seen so many revivals in the previous decades that it no longer had any more “fuel” (the unconverted) to “burn” (convert). • Western New York • Welcomed women into active public life in the church • Rejected Pre-destination; human effort in salvation

8. Religious Sects Unitarians Universalists God as ONE person – contrast with Trinitarians (God as 3 persons) Jesus was a Prophet not necessarily the Son of God as a God Did not believe in the concept of “original sin” – that man was inherently sinful from the dawn of time No belief in Hell Living truth is much more important than national, cultural, or religious boundaries All religions are true and are therefore worthy of dignity and respect Uphold principles, ethics, and actions that promote living right

9. Mormonism • Joseph Smith grew up in the “Burned Over District” in NY and continued to question traditional religious customs and orthodoxy • Angel led him to interpret a book of revelation and – Book of Mormon • Seen by his followers as a prophet • Belief that Jesus and God are two separate beings – differed from orthodox Christianity – Trinitarianism • Persecuted because of polygamy – moved the church to Illinois – Joseph Smith killed • Brigham Young moves the church and followers to UTAH

10. Religious Utopian Societies • Utopia- a community designed to create a perfect society -- idea formed by Sir Thomas More • Often wanted to bring the kingdom of heaven into reality on earth • Shakers- stressed simple, communal lifestyle (shared everything), equality, celibacy (What could be 1 problem with this?) • Mormons- founded by Joseph Smith, practiced plural marriage, mob in Carthage, IL. killed Smith in 1844. • Moved west under Brigham Young to Great Salt Lake Valley

11. Oneida in New York • Founded by John Humphrey Noyes • Believed in equality of men and women • Practices • Complex marriage and communal child-rearing • Birth control through male continence & ascending fellowship (older people with younger) • Stirpiculture- selective breeding to produce “better” offspring • How might this have been liberating for women? How might it have been oppressive? Downfall?

12. New Harmony in Indiana • Goal – a planned environment will improve social behavior and misery will eventually banish • Based on SOCIALISM / COLLECTIVISM and COMMUNISM • Equal distribution of wealth • Cooperation NOT Competition

13. Brook Farm in Massachusetts • Founded near Boston by Transcendentalists – commune with nature / protest technology • Founded for people to personally connect with divinity (God) rather than participate in organized ritualistic religion • Intellectuals such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne

14. Shakers • Founded by Mother Ann Lee • Sex was the main cause of EVIL in the world • Named because of convulsive dances • Isolationist communities based of separation of genders and equality • Population growth due to converts and adoption of orphans

15. Transcendentalists • Romantic movement, early 1800’s • Protest movement • Emphasized importance of individual, natural simplicity, spiritual renewal • Belief that people could transcend (rise above) material things in life • Emerson- Self Reliance -- rely on oneself instead of new technology / commune with nature • Henry David Thoreau- Walden (about his time living in the woods, getting away from technology, big cities), Civil Disobedience -- PROTEST

16. Poem of Emily Dickinson “Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink (bird) for a chorister (choir), And an orchard for a dome.” How does this reflect the themes of transcendentalists?

17. Literary Reform • Emily Dickinson – emotional poetry • James Fennimore Cooper – The Last of the Mohicans – American Historical Fiction • Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter • Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass • Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven • American authors writing distinctly American stories and poems about American culture

18. Other Reform Movements • Temperance (persuade people to temper or limit alcohol consumption) • Education- Horace Mann, common schools, uniform curriculum & teacher training, bigger impact in the North. • Mentally ill- Dorothea Dix; advocated better treatment, separation of criminals, mentally ill • Prisons- try to rehabilitate, penitentiary new institution • Abolitionism – attempt to rid the South of slavery • Women’s Rights – attempt to gain the right to vote

19. Temperance Movement • By 1830, Americans were drinking 7 gallons of alcohol per person, per year on average • Men spent too much $$$, avoided their families, and beat their wives (domestic violence) • Lyman Beecher and Protestant churches formed Temperance societies • Economic PANIC of 1837 caused workers to question their drinking habits • Women’s Christian Temperance Union – protest organization that pushes for legalizing morality (outlawing drinking)

20. Temperance

21. “The Bar of Destruction” Thomas Nast Original Date: March 21, 1874 Source: http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Month=March&Date=21

22. Women’s Rights / Seneca Falls Convention • Women’s Movement –Seneca Falls Convention NY- call for suffrage- Lucretia Mott/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Sojourner Truth • Declaration of Sentiments – many men respected the drafting of this document but conventional thinking would not permit women the right to vote • “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal” • Culminated in 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage in 1920)

23. Seneca Falls Convention- Lucretia Mott/ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

24. Abolitionist Movement • Abolition – Freedom from slavery • American Colonization Society – wanted free slaves then move ALL blacks to Liberia (in Africa) / didn’t work – slaves are from America • American Anti-Slavery Society (1833-1870) – founded by Wm. Lloyd Garrison believed in IMMEDIATE abolition of the slave / slave owners are sinful / criticized the A.C.S. (above) • Lucy Stone / women’s rights / maiden name / divorce rights etc.

25. American abolitionist, author, women’s suffragist Wrote and published The North Star Purchased his freedom and became an ardent abolitionist In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.” Fredrick Douglass

26. Believed in IMMEDIATE ABOLITION NOT GRADUALISM William Lloyd Garrison – The Liberator

27. Abolitionists who moved from South Carolina (daughters of slave owner) to the North to promote the abolitionist movement AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERYSOCIETY- END SLAVERY – HEADED BY WILLIAM LLYOD GARRISON Sarah and Angelina Grimke-

28. Horace Mann- (Massachusetts) pressed for more public education and helped create a state board of education in 1837. He was secretary of the new board – he doubled teacher salaries, opened 50 new high schools, and establish training schools for teachers. 1st State School Superintendent Pushed COMPULSORY EDUCATION Education Reform

29. Led Sunday school classes for prisoners. Saw the mentally ill in the prisons and saw how neglected they were as they lay on the floor. Started the crusade to improve the conditions for the mentally ill- hospital. Dorothea Dix

30. First woman to earn a medical degree. Elizabeth Blackwell

31. Nativism – Feelings of anger and hatred toward immigrants • Know – Nothing Party – political party aimed at promoting “native” American views and ideals. Fear of Irish Catholics helped fuel this party. • Most of their program goals and aims were NOT achieved. • Wanted increased naturalization requirements.

32. Class Activity • 1. Looking for the Reformer of Your Dreams individual activity or • 2. Reformer in a Bag activity • 1st/2nd Begin with presentations that were originally scheduled for Friday (my absence).