Ch. 8 Reforming American Society

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Ch. 8Reforming American Society
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81 Religion sparks

• 1. Second Great Awakening
• 2. Revival
• 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 4. Transcendentalism
• 5. Henry David Thoreau
• 6. Civil Disobedience

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• 7. Unitarians
• 8. Utopian Communities
• 9. Dorthea Dix
• 10. Efforts made to reform education (1830s)
• 11. Some opposed paying tax for public school ed.
• 12. Horace Mann-(Massachusetts) leader in public
  school reform movement
• If we do not prepare children to be good
  citizens. If we do not enrich their minds with
  knowledge, our republic must go down to
  destruction as others have gone before.

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82 Slavery AbolitionObj Identify some key
abolitionists

• 1. Abolition
• 2. William Lloyd Garrison
• 3. emancipation
• 4. Frederick Douglas
• 5. Typical work experiences of
• rural southern states
• 6. Urban slaves

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• 7. Differences between rural urban slavery
• 8. Nat Turner/Rebellion

Frederick Douglass with his second wife Helen
Pitts Dolass (sitting). The woman standing is her
sister Eva Pitts.
Scenes of Nat Turner's rebellion in Virginia.
Created in 1831.
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• 9. Most Southerners responded to Nat Turners
  rebellion by wanting to defend slavery control
  their slaves.
• Some did think they should free slaves to prevent
  revolts.
• 10. Antebellum
• Antebellum is a Latin word meaning "before war"
  (ante means before and bellum means war).
• 11. Gag Rule

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83 Women ReformObj Explain why womens
opportunities were limited in the mid-1800s

• 1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott

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• 2. Womens roles in mid 1800s
• 3. Main restrictions for women
• 4. Temperance Movement-
• 5. Elizabeth Blackwell
• 6. Catherine Beecher s survey on womens health
  found
• 7. Amelia Bloomer

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• 8. Seneca Falls Convention

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84 The Changing WorkplaceObj Describe
conditions women employees endured in factories

• 1. Cottage Industry
• 2. Master (artisan)
• 3. Journeyman
• 4. Apprentice
• 5. Mill owners hired women/girls b/c
• 6. Results of the Lowell strike
• 7. Employers won most strikes b/c

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• 8. The great potato famine
• 9. Most immigrants avoided the south b/c slavery
  limited their economic opportunities.
• 10. The National trade union movement was
  important b/c..
• Summary What were some changes in the workplace?

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• 84 Summary

Workplace changes
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Chapter Summary
Impact of social reforms