19 th Century Social Reforms

19th Century Social Reforms

Middle Class Reforms • Second Great Awakening: begins a century of reform work in America • Reform work attacks poverty, alcoholism, illiteracy, abuse of women and declining moral values • Important people: • Charles Finney: people have the power to change themselves • Lyman Beecher: good people make a good nation

Temperance Movement • Temperance: an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption • Caused people to lose control • Threat to family life

Watch and See… • What was “the pledge”? • Name a group that was active in ending alcohol consumption. • Who was William Lloyd Garrison? • What did they speak against? • How did people react to the radical abolitionists?

Abolition Movement • Abolition: movement to end slavery • Key Figures: • Nat Turner: organized a slave revolt in Virginia • Harriet Beecher Stowe: wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that criticized slavery

Women’s Suffrage • Describe the first reaction to feminism. • What happened in Seneca Falls, NY? • What did the Declaration of Sentiment state? • Did women get any rights after the Declaration?

19 th Century Social Reforms

19 th Century Social Reforms

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The 19 th Century

19 th Century Architecture

19 th Century Society

19 th Century Architecture

19 th Century

Uncovering 19 th- Century

Late 19 th Century

19 th Century Reforms and Leaders

19 th Century Realism

19 th Century Art:

The 19 th Century

Russia 19 th century

19 th Century Industry

Reforms In T he 19 th Century

19 th Century isms

19 th Century Europe

Educational Reforms of the 19 th Century

19 th Century Realism

Ideologies 19 th Century

19 th Century Ideas

19 th Century Realism

19 th century America