chapter 8 religion and reform. key ideas 2 nd great awakening evangelical preachers new religious...
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Chapter 8
Religion and Reform
Key Ideas
2nd Great Awakening Evangelical preachers New religious groups Non Protestants suffer
discrimination Mormons Catholics Jews
Interest in Religion
Mormon Migration
Key Ideas
Utopian Societies – “Perfect” Lived together communally Brook Farm, New Harmony
Transcendentalists – nature; transcend religion Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau – Walden
Communal Societies
Key Ideas
Reformers Education – Public school movement
Horace Mann Noah Webster (dictionary)
Ill and Imprisoned Dorothea Dix – mental hospitals Prison system – penitentiary movement
Temperance Movement (moderation) End alcohol abuse American Temperance Society
Temperance
Key Ideas
Antislavery Movement Cruel treatment; worked dawn to dusk Resistance – Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner William Lloyd Garrison – American Anti-Slavery
Society, The Liberator Abolitionism spreads – Frederick Douglass Southerners cling to slavery; defend it Abolitionist women realized women had no
rights either! Began women’s movement American Colonization Society – movement to
return to Africa (Liberia)
Slave States
Key Ideas
Women’s movement No property, vote, rights; education
limited Women led reform efforts; slow going Disagreement on aims Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Seneca Falls Convention – Declaration
of Sentiments; first conference Mid 1800’s had gained some rights
Status of Women