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Do-Now Jacksonian Democracy Quiz Mini-unit: Antebellum reform & abolitionism Second Great Awakening Abolitionism Abolitionist source analysis Exit Ticket After school essay brainstorm – 3:45 sharp. Come prepared!. Focus Questions: What conditions caused the wave of reform movements?

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  1. Do-Now Jacksonian Democracy Quiz Mini-unit: Antebellum reform & abolitionism Second Great Awakening Abolitionism Abolitionist source analysis Exit Ticket After school essay brainstorm – 3:45 sharp. Come prepared! Focus Questions: What conditions caused the wave of reform movements? How did abolitionist reform address slavery? What kinds of rhetoric do we see in examples of abolitionist ideas? Thursday, 12/12/13

  2. Antebellum reform • What/when was the antebellum period? • Ante = Before • Bellum = War • 1815-1860 (War of 1812 to Civil War) • Sectional Crisis (Different interests of N & S) • What issues attracted calls for reform? • Religion • Women’s rights • Slavery • Public Education • Temperance (abolition of alcohol) • Asylums

  3. 2nd Great Awakening • Why the “2nd”? What was so great about it? • c1800-c1850 • 1800 – fears of a secular America • People looking for a more emotional religious experience • “Evangelical” means… • Salvation is available to anyone who embraces Christ

  4. 2nd Great Awakening • Rise of Methodist, Baptist denominations • Decline of Anglican church • Camp meetings • Like Outside Lands…? • Revivals in upstate NY, PA, OH, IL… • Timothy Dwight @ Yale College • Frontier meetings in Tennessee & Kentucky • Itinerant preachers

  5. Revivals could last for days Each person had a duty to combat sin. Dueling, profanity, and drinking hard liquor were sins. Many northern evangelicals regarded slavery as the sum of all sins. “Burned over” NY state with revivals Peter Cartwright preached a sermon a day for 20 years Charles G. Finney 2nd Great Awakening

  6. Camp Meeting, by A. Rider, 1835

  7. Reform movements of the antebellum era • Horace Mann & development of public education • Reform of prisons & asylums • Social care for immigrants • Temperance & Lyman Beecher • Women’s suffrage & rights • 1848 Seneca Falls Convention

  8. Abolitionism How did abolitionist reform address slavery? • What was abolitionism? • What social–economic–political conditions were abolitionists responding to? • Why did the goals of different abolitionist movements vary?

  9. Opposition to slavery • Gradualism • Eg: “free soil” movement • Colonization • African Colonization Society • Liberia • Abolitionism • Eg: William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator • Direct Action • Revolt • Underground Railroad

  10. Frederick Douglass – freed slave, author, abolitionist Harriet Tubman – Underground Railroad Sojourner Truth – Freed slave, advocate for womens rights & abolition Martin Delaney – Early black nationalist, first black medical student at Harvard, first black army officer in Civil War David Walker – Freed black man, Boston, MA. Advocate for racial equality William Lloyd Garrison – abolitionist, founder of The Liberator Lewis Tappan – Abolitionist journalist, wrote about the Amistad Theodore Weld – Slavery As It Is John Brown – militant abolitionist Nat Turner – Led 1831 VA slave rebellion Key abolitionists

  11. What did abolitionists achieve? • Suffered Violence • Stimulated Political Organization • Made abolition a key political issue • “Gag Rule” • Part of an international movement • Slavery was abolished . . .

  12. If you were debating John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh, how would you have responded to their arguments? • Do you agree or disagree with Henry David Thoreau’s position on civil disobedience concerning slavery? Under what conditions do you think that civil disobedience is justified? Explain. • Should the abolitionists be blamed for Southern secession from the Union and the Civil War, or praised for bringing slavery to an end?

  13. Exit Ticket: • What kinds of rhetoric exist in these sources? What underlying themes or ideals can you see? • Were the abolitionists’ militant rhetoric and actions necessary for the abolition of slavery? Explain your opinion.

  14. Sourcing & Context Content: What does this source say? Note-taker How does this connect to the focus question?

  15. “Although Americans perceived westward expansion as a morally justified process, it was in fact an aggressive imperial expansion pursued at the expense of others.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to American expansionism in the period 1800-1850.

  16. Analyze the extent to which the American Revolution represented a radical alteration in American political ideas and institutions. Confine your answer to the period 1775 to 1800.

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