chapter 14 new movements in america. essential questions what goals did american social reformers...
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Chapter 14
New Movements in America
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Essential Questions
• What goals did American social reformers have during the early 1800s?
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I. Immigrants and Urban Challenges
• Between 1840-1860 – 4 million European immigrants
• Irish Potato Famine– 1841 – potato blight (fungus) kills Irish potatoes– Irish go to U.S. to escape starvation
• German Revolution– 1848 – revolution against harsh rule fails– Germans go to U.S. to escape political persecution– Settled in Midwest on farms and rural areas
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Anti-Immigration Movements
• Native-born Americans feared losing jobs to immigrants willing to work for less
• Nativists: Americans opposed to immigration• 1849 – Know-Nothing Party:
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Rapid Growth of Cities
• Cities grow because of jobs and transportation• Middle Class:
• Entertainment– Libraries– Theater and concerts– Playing cards– Bowling, boxing, baseball
New York Knickerbockers1862
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Urban Problems
• City residents lived near workplaces – many lived in tenements: poorly designed apartment buildings that housed large numbers of people
• Dangers:
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II. American Arts
• Transcendentalism: belief that people could transcend, or rise above, material things in life (simplicity and individualism)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller
• Utopian Communities:
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American Romanticism
• Artists:– Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter– Herman Melville – Moby Dick– Edgar Allan Poe – “The Raven”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – “Paul Revere’s Ride”– Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass– Washington Irving – Legend of Sleepy Hollow– Emily Dickinson – well known female poet – “I’m Nobody”
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III. Reforming Society
• Second Great Awakening: 1790-1800s – Christian renewal movement – led to movements to fix social problems
• Temperance Movement:
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African American Communities
• African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church • 1835 – Oberlin College becomes first to accept
African Americans• Some opportunity to attend schools in North
and Midwest – very limited in South – – illegal for slaves to learn to read and write– slaveholders feared revolt
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Prison Reform
• Dorthea Dix:
• Others built reform schools for children
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Improvements in Education
• Common School Movement:
• Schools and colleges for women opened • Thomas Gallaudet: founded first free school
for the hearing impaired in 1817
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IV. The Movement to End Slavery
• Abolition: complete end to slavery
• Quakers were among the first abolitionists
• Abolitionists differed though on treatment of African Americans
• Colonization:
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Famous Abolitionists
• William Lloyd Garrison: published The Liberator – founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833
• Sarah and Angelina Grimke:
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Famous Abolitionist
• Frederick Douglass: escaped slave who learned to read and write – published The North Star
• Sojourner Truth:
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The Underground Railroad
• Network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitive or escaped slaves
• Harriet Tubman:
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Opposition to Ending Slavery
• Northern workers feared freed slaves would take their jobs
• Southerners saw it as a threat to way of life socially and economically
• Gag Rule:
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V. Women’s Rights
• Fighting for African American rights led many female abolitionists to fight for women’s rights
• Margaret Fuller: wrote Women in the 19th Century in 1845 – stressed individualism
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Seneca Falls Convention
• First public meeting about women’s rights held in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
• Declaration of Sentiments:
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Famous Women’s Rights Leaders
• Lucy Stone: gifted women’s rights speaker
• Susan B. Anthony: turned women’s rights into a political movement for equality and voting
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton: