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Title: Ch. 15: The Spirit of Reform


1
Ch. 15 The Spirit of Reform
  • P. 407

2
Lesson 1 Social Reform
  • P. 410

3
Religion Reform
  • Second Great Awakening late 1700s thru
    mid-1800s
  • Renewed religious interest, marked by revivals
  • Brings changes to American religion, education,
    literature
  • People try to form utopias

4
The Impact of Religion
  • Lyman Beecher CT minister who led temperance
    movement
  • ME some other states outlaw manufacture sale
    of alcohol

5
Changing Education
  • Horace Mann MA lawyer leader of education
    reform
  • 1839 MA founds the nations 1st state-supported
    normal school
  • New colleges universities open
  • Ex Oberlin College of Ohio (1833)
  • Admitted both women African Americans

6
Helping People with Disabilities
  • Thomas Gallaudet developed a method to teach
    those w/ hearing impairments
  • Opened Hartford School for the Deaf in CT (1817)
  • Samuel Gridley Howe helped ppl w/ vision
    impairments
  • Printed books using Braille
  • Headed the Perkins Institute (school for visually
    impaired in Boston)

7
Helping People with Disabilities (cont.)
  • Dorothea Dix schoolteacher who began visiting
    prisons in 1841
  • Educated public about the poor conditions for
    prisoners the mentally ill

8
Culture Changes
  • Transcendentalism Stressed the relationship b/t
    humans nature the importance of the
    individual conscience
  • Margaret Fuller Womens rights
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Overcome prejudice
  • Henry David Thoreau Civil disobedience

9
Culture Changes (cont.)
  • Other writers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt
    Whitman, Emily Dickinson
  • Art
  • Hudson River School
  • Print-making (Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt
    Ives)

10
Lesson 2 The Abolitionists
11
The Colonization Plan
  • 1816 American Colonization Society formed
  • Raised to send free African Americans out of
    the country
  • Acquired land in west Africa for a colony
  • 1822 1st settlers arrive in Liberia
  • 1847 Liberia becomes independent country

12
Making the Case Against Slavery
  • William Lloyd Garrison MA abolitionist
  • 1831 started The Liberator newspaper
  • Called for an immediate end to slavery
  • 1832 started the New England Anti-Slavery
    Society
  • 1833 started the American Anti-Slavery Society

13
Making the Case Against Slavery (cont.)
  • Sarah Angelina Grimke supported abolition
    womens rights
  • 1839 write American Slavery As It Is (firsthand
    stories of life under slavery)
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • 1852 publishes Uncle Toms Cabin

14
African American Abolitionists
  • Helped organize lead the American Anti-Slavery
    Society, subscribed to The Liberator
  • 1827 Freedoms Journal begun
  • David Walker publishes antislavery pamphlet
  • 1830 African Americans lead convention in
    Philly
  • Start African American college? Encourage free
    African Americans to move to Canada?

15
The Role of Frederick Douglass
  • Ex-slave (escaped in 1838, bought his freedom in
    1847)
  • Joined Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
  • Gave antislavery speeches in U.S. abroad
  • Edited the antislavery newspapers North Star

16
Sojourner Truth
  • Born a slave as Isabella Baumfree in NY
  • Escaped in 1826 NY bans slavery in 1827
  • Changes name in 1843
  • Works w/ William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick
    Douglass, etc.

17
The Underground Railroad
  • Network of escape routes
  • Most famous conductor Harriet Tubman
  • As many as 100,000 slaves escape

18
Quiz Topics
  • Second Great Awakening
  • Temperance movement
  • Thomas Gallaudet
  • Transcendentalism
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Civil disobedience
  • American Colonization Society
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Underground Railroad
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