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Unit 7
History
| group | info |
|---|---|
| 2nd Great Awakening | Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. |
| 2nd Great Awakening | Ministers travel country, preach at large gatherings called revivals. |
| 2nd Great Awakening | Focuses on not just salvation, followers must try to improve society. |
| 2nd Great Awakening | Huge growth of churches in America |
| 2nd Great Awakening | Foundation of reform movement |
| Public Education | Americans argued a country could not exist without literate citizens. |
| Public Education | Smarter citizens = better country |
| Public Education | Keeps the perform being oppressed |
| Public Education | Horace Mann- father of public education |
| Public Education | 1st public schools begin in Boston and NYC |
| Public Education | Number of kids attending school more than doubles |
| Public Education | Supported by tax money |
| Prison Reform | Dorothea Dix visits prisons |
| Prison Reform | Inmates dressed in rags and poorly fed |
| Prison Reform | Chained together and or to walls |
| Prison Reform | Her works leads to separate prisons for men and women |
| Prison Reform | Her works lead to construction of mental health facilities |
| Prison Reform | Her works lead to proper treatment for mentally ill |
| Temperance | Aimed to ban sale/consumption of alcohol |
| Temperance | Health concerns, social concerns, domestic violence |
| Temperance | Successful, 18th Amendment banned Alcohol (1920-1933)- only amendment to be repealed (21st) |
| The Abolition Movement | Importation of slaves banned-1808 |
| The Abolition Movement | Churches lead the anti-slavery movement- Quakers |
| The Abolition Movement | 1845; Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas-"The North Star"-Anti-slavery newspaper |
| The Abolition Movement | William Lloyd Garrison-The Liberator; Anti-Slavery paper |
| The Abolition Movement | Harriet Tubman leads Slaves north on Underground Railroad |
| The Abolition Movement | Harriet Beecher Stowe-"Uncle Tom's Cabin' |
| The Abolition Movement | Sojourner Truth- runaway slave, gives speeches about evils about slavery, -"Aint I a Woman?" |
| The Women's Rights Movement | Women help with abolition, temperance, prison reform |
| The Women's Rights Movement | Questioned roles in society |
| The Women's Rights Movement | Seneca Falls(NY) Cnovention-1848 |
| The Women's Rights Movement | First women's rights convention in US |
| The Women's Rights Movement | Woman's suffrage |
| The Women's Rights Movement | Declaration on Sentiments of the Rights of Women ( written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton) |
| The Women's Rights Movement | Phrased similar to the Declaration of Independence. |
| A New Society | Rise of cities-urbanization; cities doubled in population |
| A New Society | Tenements multistory buildings cramped with tiny apartments. |
| A New Society | No water, no sanitations or sewage |
| A New Society | Cholera spread |
| Factory Working Conditions | Work was hard, boring, and long |
| Factory Working Conditions | Average 14 hours/day, 6 days a week |
| Factory Working Conditions | Health problems- pneumonia, tuberculosis, and black lung disease. |
| Factory Working Conditions | Entire families worked in factories |
| Factory Working Conditions | Woman paid less- children paid least and beat |
| Factory Working Conditions | Children taken from orphanages |
| Free Enterprise | Laissez Faire- Government should not interfere in business |
| 4 Questions to ask | What to produce? |
| 4 Questions to ask | How to produce? |
| 4 Questions to ask | How many to produce? |
| 4 Questions to ask | Who am I making this product for? |
| Law of Supply and Demand | Big demand, small supply =High prices |
| Law of Supply and Demand | Small demand, Big supply= Low prices |
| Transcendentalism | Literary, political, and philosophical movement in 1800's |
| Transcendentalism | Urge people to get back to nature, simplify life |
| Transcendentalism | UTOPIA: create perfect societies |
| Civil Disobedience | The refusal to obey laws you consider unjust |
| Civil Disobedience | Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. use as an example in peaceful protest |
| Authors | Henry David Thoreau(known for civil disobedience) he didn't pay taxes because he did not want to support a government that allowed slavery and fought a war with Mexico- wrote the essay, "Civil Disobedience" urges people to disobey unjust laws |