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Completing the Revolution
9/18/02
Period of– Economic Growth– Industrialization– Urbanization– Immigration
1800-1850
1800-1850
Period of– Changing Roles for Women
Hardening of cotton/slave south– Increase in free black community
1800-1850
Period of– Increased Individualism and Competition (Popular especially in the South and West)
1800-1850Increased Individualism and Competition– Many Americans left behind in Movement West
– Many Americans not included in the new economy or Democracy
1800-1850
These changes disrupted Established Patterns– Led to Reform Attempts
• To re-establish Benefits of Democracy that seemed lost
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– The sale of Whiskey was viewed by
many Evangelicals as •A Symbol of Sabbath Violation
•A Destroyer of Homes
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– Crusade
• Began with emphasis on temperate use
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– Crusade
• Ended as a Crusade to prohibit the sale or manufacture of Alcohol
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– American Society for the
Promotion of Temperance organized in 1826
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– "Maine Law" – by 1855
MaineNew YorkIndianaIowa
MichiganOhioPennsylvania
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– Many believed that alcohol was
an evil introduced and perpetuated by Catholic Immigrants
Social Improvement Movements
Temperance– Part of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-
Catholic Prejudice and Nativism
Social Improvement Movements
Prison and Asylum Reform– More Humane Treatment– Reform rather than Just
Punished
Social Improvement Movements
Prison and Asylum Reform– Punishment to "Fit the– Crime”– Dorothea Dix
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Affluent American Women
• Were freed from household chores
– Hired housekeepers
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Affluent American Women
• Were freed from household chores
– Industrialization of Many Household Tasks, like
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Industrialization of Many
Household Tasks, likeWeaving
Clothes Making
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Had smaller families
Children became a cost rather than an asset
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Had smaller families
Freed women of Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing Duties
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Affluent American Women
• Assumed the role of Moral and home leader of the Family
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Affluent American Women
• Men left home to "Bring home the Bacon"
• Wives sought literacy to train offspring
Social Improvement Movements
Status of Women– Affluent American Women
• Married now for emotional rather than economic reasons
Social Improvement Movements
Affluent American Women– Formed "Life Partnerships"– Romantic Love became popular
Social Improvement Movements
Affluent American WomenWere free to enter Reform Movements
• Had free time, More education
Women's Rights Movement
Women's involvement in other social improvements led many to question their own social status, such as...
Women's Rights Movement
Property RightsDivorce RightsOpportunity to Education
Women's Rights Movement
1848-Seneca Falls Convention
Women's Rights Movement
Seneca Falls Convention– 1st National Convention of Women's Rights
Women's Rights Movement
Seneca Falls Convention– Published "Declaration of Sentiments"
Women's Rights Movement
Seneca Falls Convention– Movement focused on Suffrage after 1850
Religion
1820-1830-Mormons form
1801-1850: Second Great Awakening
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
Mormons
1801-1850: Second Great Awakening
Anti-Slavery Movements
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) issued the first number of The Liberator on January 1, 1831
Anti-Slavery Movements
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
Anti-Slavery Movements
