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The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform. Changing American Life in the 19 th Century. 2 nd Great Awakening. Religious movement using outdoor revivals to convince people to return to a strong faith. People came to pray, sing, weep, & shout.

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The Age of Reform

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  1. The Age of Reform Changing American Life in the 19th Century

  2. 2nd Great Awakening Religious movement using outdoor revivals to convince people to return to a strong faith People came to pray, sing, weep, & shout Men & women became eager to reform their lives & the world around them…led to new reform movements

  3. Industries & Labor Example: Lowell girls went on strike in 1836 demanding lowered rent and better conditions • Factories were noisy, unsafe, and work was boring • Workers wanted better conditions • They organized into trade unions • Eventually organized into labor unions • Other groups called for shorter hours and higher wages • 140 strikes took place in 1835 & 1836 alone Seal for the Knights of Labor, first organized union in the United States

  4. Reforming Education "Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree." - Thomas Jefferson, 1805 The English School, first public high school in America

  5. Caring for the Needy/Helpless

  6. William Lloyd Garrison White abolitionist who called for the “immediate & complete emancipation” Frederick Douglass Most widely known black abolitionist/former slave Sojourner Truth Used personal narratives and worked for abolitionism & women’s rights/former slave Abolitionists in America

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