Second Great Awakening and Reform

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Second Great Awakening and Reform

• Honors US History

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Second Great Awakening

• After 1790, this religious movement swept the
  U.S.
• Individuals can improve self, society and are
  responsible for their own salvation
• Large gatherings
• With preachers, some having 20,000 or more at
  outdoor camps
• Revival gathering to awaken religious faith
  lasts 4-5 days
• Usually increases church membership

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Temperance Movement

• People should drink less alcohol, or alcohol
  should be outlawed all together
• Believed it was the cause of crime and poverty
• Impact
• Church
• Influence
• Women
• Beginning of Prohibition

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Transcendentalism

• Urged people to transcend the limits of their
  mind and let their souls embrace the beauty of
  the universe
• Literary and philosophical movement
• Simple life
• Truth found in nature, emotion, and imagination

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Transcendentalist

• Ralph Waldo Emerson- Poet
• Margret Fuller- Womens Rights
• Henry David Thoreau- Self reliance
• Walt Whitman- Mixed beliefs
• Mass production
• of newspapers
• Why?

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Reforming Asylums and Prisons

• Dorothea Dix
• Improves conditions for mentally ill
• Stressed for rehabilitation to obtain useful
  position in society

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Education Reform

• All children should be required to attend free
  schools supported by taxpayers and staffed by
  trained teachers
• Impact
• Est. education as a right
• State backed
• Public Education
• Teachers quality
• Why?
• New technology
• Immigrants
• Voters