The American Reform Movement

The American Reform Movement Religion and Reform Reshape America

The Second Great Awakening • What is Reform? • Health, Education, Tax Reform etc. • The 2nd Great Awakening (1790-1830) • Rejected predestination • Salvation (heaven) = individual’s responsibility • 1800: 1 in 15 Americans was a member of a church • 1850: 1 in 6 Americans was a member of a church

The Second Great Awakening • Revivals: • Outdoor religious meetings • Day: • Bible study & preachers • Evenings: • hellfire & brimstone sermons • 5,000+ attend

SGA & Reform • SGA =individual responsibility • No more predestination • Salvation = Individual Actions & Good Works • Why would SGA lead to reform? • Salvation requires good works • Participating in Reform Movement = good works

The American Reform Movement

The American Reform Movement

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The Conservation Reform Movement

The Prison Reform Movement

The American Reform Tradition

The American Woman Suffrage Movement

The Papal Reform Movement

The American Romantic Movement (aka The American Renaissance)

The American Civil Rights Movement

The American Transcendental Movement

Thought Reform Movement

Reform Movement Temperance

The “Buy American” Movement

American Indian movement

The Medical reform movement

The American Woman Suffrage Movement

The American Civil Rights movement

Total Reform Movement

The American Civil Rights Movement

The American Woman Suffrage Movement

Progressive Reform Movement:

Ch. 5-3: Birth of the American Reform Movement

The American Woman Suffrage Movement

The American Transcendental Movement