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Completing the Revolution

9/18/02

Period of– Economic Growth– Industrialization– Urbanization– Immigration

1800-1850

1800-1850

Period of– Changing Roles for Women

Hardening of cotton/slave south– Increase in free black community

1800-1850

Period of– Increased Individualism and Competition (Popular especially in the South and West)

1800-1850Increased Individualism and Competition– Many Americans left behind in Movement West

– Many Americans not included in the new economy or Democracy

1800-1850

These changes disrupted Established Patterns– Led to Reform Attempts

• To re-establish Benefits of Democracy that seemed lost

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– The sale of Whiskey was viewed by

many Evangelicals as •A Symbol of Sabbath Violation

•A Destroyer of Homes

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– Crusade

• Began with emphasis on temperate use

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– Crusade

• Ended as a Crusade to prohibit the sale or manufacture of Alcohol

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– American Society for the

Promotion of Temperance organized in 1826

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– "Maine Law" – by 1855

MaineNew YorkIndianaIowa

MichiganOhioPennsylvania

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– Many believed that alcohol was

an evil introduced and perpetuated by Catholic Immigrants

Social Improvement Movements

Temperance– Part of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-

Catholic Prejudice and Nativism

Social Improvement Movements

Prison and Asylum Reform– More Humane Treatment– Reform rather than Just

Punished

Social Improvement Movements

Prison and Asylum Reform– Punishment to "Fit the– Crime”– Dorothea Dix

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Affluent American Women

• Were freed from household chores

– Hired housekeepers

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Affluent American Women

• Were freed from household chores

– Industrialization of Many Household Tasks, like

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Industrialization of Many

Household Tasks, likeWeaving

Clothes Making

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Had smaller families

Children became a cost rather than an asset

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Had smaller families

Freed women of Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing Duties

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Affluent American Women

• Assumed the role of Moral and home leader of the Family

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Affluent American Women

• Men left home to "Bring home the Bacon"

• Wives sought literacy to train offspring

Social Improvement Movements

Status of Women– Affluent American Women

• Married now for emotional rather than economic reasons

Social Improvement Movements

Affluent American Women– Formed "Life Partnerships"– Romantic Love became popular

Social Improvement Movements

Affluent American WomenWere free to enter Reform Movements

• Had free time, More education

Women's Rights Movement

Women's involvement in other social improvements led many to question their own social status, such as...

Women's Rights Movement

Property RightsDivorce RightsOpportunity to Education

Women's Rights Movement

1848-Seneca Falls Convention

Women's Rights Movement

Seneca Falls Convention– 1st National Convention of Women's Rights

Women's Rights Movement

Seneca Falls Convention– Published "Declaration of Sentiments"

Women's Rights Movement

Seneca Falls Convention– Movement focused on Suffrage after 1850

Religion

1820-1830-Mormons form

1801-1850: Second Great Awakening

Religion

Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints)–Founded by Joseph Smith in NY 1820–Led By Smith to Nauvoo, Illinois–Led by Brigham Young to Salt Lake

City Utah, attempt to create the State of Deseret

Mormons

1801-1850: Second Great Awakening

Anti-Slavery Movements

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) issued the first number of The Liberator on January 1, 1831

Anti-Slavery Movements

Anti-Slavery Movements

1847b. Martin R. Delany moves from Pittsburgh to Rochester in order to found with and work with Frederick Douglass on a new paper, North Star

Anti-Slavery Movements