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The Second Great Awakening“Spiritual Reform From
Within”[Religious Revivalism]
“Born Again Christians”
Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality
Temperance
No DrunksAsylum &
Penal Reform
Education
No Dummies
Women’s Rights
No Discrimination
Abolitionism
No Cruelty
Second Great Awakening• Encouraged new reform movements!!!!
Let’s use all of our newfound religious inspiration to battle
evil!!! Right-o!!!!
Educational ReformHorace Mann - “Father of
American Education”
•Children should be “molded” to a state of perfection.
•Promoted more schools, expanded curriculum.
Educational ReformNoah Webster
•Dictionary helped standardize the American language.
*** Slaves in the South were legally forbidden from learning to read
and write.
Penitentiary ReformDorothea Dix
(1802-1887)
•Mental health reform.•Helped establish that insanity was a disease of the mind.
Women in Revolt
• 1848 – Seneca Falls Convention• Declaration of Sentiments: “All men and
women are created equal.”
Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Transcendentalism
Ralph WaldoEmerson
Henry DavidThoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – people had the right to disobey unjust laws.
Truth transcends the senses
Self-relianceSelf-improvement
Thanks, Henry! Thanks, Henry!
Don’t mention it!
Civil disobedience – Can you think
of any historical figures that
may have been influenced by
Thoreau’s writings?