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Title: Second Great Awakening and Reform


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Second Great Awakening and Reform
  • Honors US History

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Second Great Awakening
  • After 1790, this religious movement swept the
    U.S.
  • Individuals can improve self, society and are
    responsible for their own salvation
  • Large gatherings
  • With preachers, some having 20,000 or more at
    outdoor camps
  • Revival gathering to awaken religious faith
    lasts 4-5 days
  • Usually increases church membership

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Temperance Movement
  • People should drink less alcohol, or alcohol
    should be outlawed all together
  • Believed it was the cause of crime and poverty
  • Impact
  • Church
  • Influence
  • Women
  • Beginning of Prohibition

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Transcendentalism
  • Urged people to transcend the limits of their
    mind and let their souls embrace the beauty of
    the universe
  • Literary and philosophical movement
  • Simple life
  • Truth found in nature, emotion, and imagination

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Transcendentalist
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson- Poet
  • Margret Fuller- Womens Rights
  • Henry David Thoreau- Self reliance
  • Walt Whitman- Mixed beliefs
  • Mass production
  • of newspapers
  • Why?

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Reforming Asylums and Prisons
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Improves conditions for mentally ill
  • Stressed for rehabilitation to obtain useful
    position in society

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Education Reform
  • All children should be required to attend free
    schools supported by taxpayers and staffed by
    trained teachers
  • Impact
  • Est. education as a right
  • State backed
  • Public Education
  • Teachers quality
  • Why?
  • New technology
  • Immigrants
  • Voters
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