Completing the Revolution

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Completing the Revolution
9/18/02
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1800-1850

• Period of
• Economic Growth
• Industrialization
• Urbanization
• Immigration

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1800-1850

• Period of
• Changing Roles for Women
• Hardening of cotton/slave south
• Increase in free black community

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1800-1850

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

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1800-1850

• Increased Individualism and Competition
• Many Americans left behind in Movement West
• Many Americans not included in the new economy or
  Democracy

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1800-1850

• These changes disrupted Established Patterns
• Led to Reform Attempts
• To re-establish Benefits of Democracy that seemed
  lost

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Social Improvement Movements

• Temperance
• The sale of Whiskey was viewed by many
  Evangelicals as
• A Symbol of Sabbath Violation
• A Destroyer of Homes

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Social Improvement Movements

• Temperance
• Crusade
• Began with emphasis on temperate use

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Social Improvement Movements

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

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Social Improvement Movements

• Temperance
• American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
  organized in 1826

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Social Improvement Movements

• Temperance
• "Maine Law" by 1855

Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania
Maine New York Indiana Iowa
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Social Improvement Movements

• Temperance
• Many believed that alcohol was an evil introduced
  and perpetuated by Catholic Immigrants

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Social Improvement Movements

• Temperance
• Part of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Catholic Prejudice
  and Nativism

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Social Improvement Movements

• Prison and Asylum Reform
• More Humane Treatment
• Reform rather than Just Punished

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Social Improvement Movements

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

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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Affluent American Women
• Were freed from household chores
• Hired housekeepers

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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Affluent American Women
• Were freed from household chores
• Industrialization of Many Household Tasks, like

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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Industrialization of Many Household Tasks, like

Weaving
Clothes Making
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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Had smaller families

Children became a cost rather than an asset
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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Had smaller families

Freed women of Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing
Duties
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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Affluent American Women
• Assumed the role of Moral and home leader of the
  Family

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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Affluent American Women
• Men left home to "Bring home the Bacon"
• Wives sought literacy to train offspring

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Social Improvement Movements

• Status of Women
• Affluent American Women
• Married now for emotional rather than economic
  reasons

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Social Improvement Movements

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

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Social Improvement Movements

• Affluent American Women
• Were free to enter Reform Movements
• Had free time, More education

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Women's Rights Movement

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

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Women's Rights Movement

• Property Rights
• Divorce Rights
• Opportunity to Education

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Women's Rights Movement

• 1848-Seneca Falls Convention

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Women's Rights Movement

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

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Women's Rights Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention
• Published "Declaration of Sentiments"

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Women's Rights Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention
• Movement focused on Suffrage after 1850

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Religion

• 1820-1830-Mormons form
• 1801-1850 Second Great Awakening

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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

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Mormons
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1801-1850 Second Great Awakening
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Anti-Slavery Movements

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

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Anti-Slavery Movements
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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

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Anti-Slavery Movements