The 1st

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The 1st 2nd Great Awakening the cultural
changes in 1800s America
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1st Great Awakening

• 1730s - 1740s

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What was the Great Awakening?

• Religious revival movement.
• Evangelicalism-- new birth is the ultimate
  religious experience.
• Followers accept that they are sinners and ask
  for salvation.

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Before the Great Awakening

• Before 1730s, most colonies had established
  religions
• Congregationalists in New England (basically
  Puritans)
• Anglicans in New York and Southern Colonies (same
  as Church of England)

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Old Lights vs. New Lights

• Churches that grew as a result of the Great
  Awakening Presbyterianism, Methodism, Baptism
  (New Lights)
• Great Awakening challenged authority and
  hierarchy of established churches (Old Lights
  Congregationalists and Anglicans).
• Great Awakening said anyone could be converted or
  born again you didnt need traditional church
  leadership to decide whether or not you belong.

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Leaders of the 1st Great Awakening

• George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards

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The Second Great Awakening

• Evangelical Reform from within
• Social Reform
• Equality (preached to whites blacks alike also
  women)

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1. Women in America
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Women in the 1800s

• Womens Place
• Cook, clean, care for children, take family to
  church
• Unable to vote
• Rights of a minor
• Could own property, but forfeited to husband upon
  marriage
• Could not initiate divorce
• Could not sign contracts or wills
• No education/schooling

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Seneca Falls Convention (NY)

• Beginning of the Womens Rights Movement
• GOAL Suffrage (Right to Vote)
• Leaders
• Lucretia Mott
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony

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2. Prison Reform

• Dorothea Dix
• Rehabilitation
• Care for Mentally Ill

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3. Education Reform

• Noah Webster
• Dictionary
• Horace Mann
• Education beyond all other human devices, is a
  great equalizer of the human conditionIt
  prevents being poor.
• Tax Supported Schools (public schools)

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4. Abolition

• Desired an end to slavery
• Based in both Religion and Resistance
• Abolitionist Movement
• Gradualists
• Immediatists
• Free Blacks