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Women's Rights
~Analyzing the Key Event of "The Antebellum Era Reforms"~
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Transcendentalism | -Hippies before hippies were hippies -Wanted to give freedom to the slaves, no salvation, good education, peace, etc. -helped inspire social reform movements like women's rights movements -Key people: Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau |
| Utopian Societies | -a utopian society was a simple community founded to create a perfect society based on idealistic principles -One of the most known groups from this was The Shakers which was led by a women -Oneida community- beloved we are all married to each other |
| The Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Era Reforms | -A series of religious revivals that spread rapidly (extra in North) -Believed Salvation was in their own hands, not Gods -This group caught the attention of lower classes - More emotional preaching sought to seek/open emotion in listeners |
| The Second Great Awakening and Antebellum Era Reforms pt 2... | -Many people converted to Christianity -caused by the market revolution -Social Reforms & Redefining the ideal of equality: temperance, education, etc. |
| Temperance Crusade Movement | -Temperance Movement (means anti-alcohol) -Thought alcohol was the root of evil -Panic of 1819 => a greater alcohol consumption -Immigrants were target (Irish) b/c got blamed with alcohol consumption - "The Drunkard's Party" -Know Nothing Party |
| Prison and Asylum Reform and Education Reform | -Penitentiary Reform (Dorothea Dix)- first penitentiary founded in Auburn, NY; Dorothea Dix Asylum (Lunatic Asylum) -Educational Reform: Religious training -> secular education; MA-> always on the forefront of public educational reform; |
| Prison and Asylum Reform and Education Reform pt 2... | -Educational Reform: By 1860 every state offered free public education to whites *US had one of the highest literacy rates* -Horase Man (1796-1859): Children were clay in the hands of teachers and school officials; discouraged corporal punishment |
| Prison and Asylum Reform and Education Reform pt 3... | -Horase Man: Established state teacher-training programs; used religious parables to teach "American Values" - Emma Willard- train female teachers in core subjects |
| Women's Rights Movement | -Seneca Falls Convention (1848) -"Cult of domesticity"- Women's role was to "civilize" her husband and family - Women were unable to vote, had a legal status of a minor, single (could own her own property), etc |
| Women's Rights Movement pt 2... | - The Second Great Awakening inspired women to improve society -Important Women: Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott -Womens right's movement splits over woman's role in it |
| The Abolitionist Movement | -Abolish slavery -1816- American Colonization Society created ( gradual, voluntary emancipation) -Liberia is created - no real anti-slavery sentiment in the North in the 1820s and 1830s -created a free slave state in Liberia west of Africa |
| The Abolitionist Movement pt 2... | -William Lloyd Garrison -> slavery and Masonry undermined Republican values; Immediate emancipation with NO compensation; Slavery was a moral not an economic issue - William Lloyd Garrison wrote The Liberator -Gag rule 1836 through 1844 |
| The Abolitionist Movement pt 3... | - the tree of slavery-loaded with the sum of all villainies -David Walker: fought for freedom rather than to wait to be set free by whites (violent) “kill or be killed” |
| The Abolitionist Movement pt 4... | -Frederick Douglass: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1848); “The North Star” (1847) - Sojourner Truth or Isabella Baumfree -Harriet Tubman-> Underground Railroad |