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Quick WriteWrite down the following questions on pg. 37 of your notebook. You have 5-10 minutes to respond to the following questions. You may answer in bullet points.
Should my tax dollars be used to educate other people’s kids? Why or why not?
Why institutionalize the mentally ill and not just lock them up with common prisoners?
Why did it take so long for women to get the right to vote?
Should drugs be legalized?
The Reform Movements EQ: What were the causes and effects of the reform movements that emerged in the nineteenth century?
The Second Great Awakening1st Great Awakening
1730s, emphasis on repenting sins, church membership grew
2nd Great Awakening
Americans join churches and attend revival meetings in record #s in 1820s and 1830s
Emphasis: Live well, work hard, do God’s work on earth
Reform EraTemperance Movement – alcohol awareness
Education Reforms – increased access to education
Prison Reforms – separate mentally ill
Urban Reform Many immigrants from
Germany and Ireland in mid 1800s
Worked in factories, lived in crowded apt buildings
Local boards of health were est.
Workers began to organize to demand better working conditions
Ten hour movement
Women’s RightsSeneca Falls Convention 1848
First women’s rights meetingOrganized by Lucretia
Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments“All men and women
are created equal”
AbolitionAntislavery Efforts in the South
By 1850 250,000 freemenHelped others escapeSpoke out against slavery
Slave Uprisings - Nat Turner
Underground Railroad –
Informal constantly changing
network of escape routes
Abolition Movement in North
Slavery seen as morally wrong
American Anti-Slavery Society founded
Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke sisters, Frederick Douglass
Garrison Grimke Sisters Douglass
Kerry Washington Performs Sojourner Truth’s
“Ain’t I A Woman” speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no
Talk to your neighbor:
What were the causes and effects of the reform movements that emerged in the 19th century?