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Antebellum Reform and The Women’s Rights Movement

Antebellum Reform and The Women’s Rights Movement. From Domestic Ideology to Seneca Falls. Defining the Reform Impulse. Perfectionist Attitude; Let’s Remake the World Variety of Reforms Men Lead, but Women Form Grass Roots. Why Reform? Religion is One Answer.

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Antebellum Reform and The Women’s Rights Movement

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  1. Antebellum Reform and The Women’s Rights Movement From Domestic Ideology to Seneca Falls

  2. Defining the Reform Impulse • Perfectionist Attitude; Let’s Remake the World • Variety of Reforms • Men Lead, but Women Form Grass Roots

  3. Why Reform? Religion is One Answer • Second Great Awakening and Evangelical Religion • Sense of both sinfulness and choice

  4. Women Dominated Evangelical Religion

  5. Market Revolution (Surprise!) Encouraged Reform • Greater Circulation of Ideas and the Organizational Impulse

  6. Market Revolution (Surprise!) Encouraged Reform • Greater Circulation of Ideas and the Organizational Impulse • Loss on Control, Especially in Urban Areas

  7. What political party was more likely to support reform? • A. Democrats—they believed in giving ordinary people greater voice in politics. • B. Whigs—they had most of their support from the middle class.

  8. From Domestic Ideology to Public Life Religion (Evangelicalism) Republicanism Market Revolution MORAL REFORM (temperance) (abolitionism) Public Life: Organizations, Petitions, Speaking Domestic Ideology

  9. Crucial Reform Movement: The Abolitionists • Key figure: William Lloyd Garrison (Began Publishing The Liberator in 1831 at Age 26) • Radical Demands for Immediate Abolition, Complete Equality • Free Blacks, Women Important

  10. New England and Northeast: Center of Abolitionism

  11. Abolitionists: Slavery Violated Domestic Ideology & Religion

  12. Were the Abolitionists Popular in the North? • A. Yes—the antislavery movement fueled the Civil War. • B. No—they challenged too many fundamental assumptions.

  13. Were the Abolitionists Popular in the North? NO!!! Abolitionists Seen as *Bad for Business *Unpatriotic *Racially Suspect

  14. Abolitionism Helps Create Women’s Rights Movement • Abolitionism provides women with opportunity to write & speak in public. • Natural rights ideology could be applied to women as well: are women like slaves? • Some abolitionists (Garrison) supported women’s rights.

  15. “Not for Ourselves Alone:Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony” Documentary by Ken Burns

  16. Important Questions! • What is important about the background of Stanton and Anthony? • What was the most controversial subject at the Seneca Falls Convention? • Why was the Declaration of Sentiments so powerful—and controversial—in the 1840s?

  17. Questions to Ponder Over the Weekend • Was there a big difference between moral authority and political power? • Why Did Most Women in the Nineteenth-Century OPPOSE the Women’s Rights Movement?

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