Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840 #4 Flashcards
Second Great Awakening
Speak to everyone affected by Market Revolution
Individual/Communal redemption
Perfect in society and god’s eyes
hard-work=success
Mormons/Utopian society
Mormons
unorthodox
move West
Reform movement periods
1830/1840s
2nd Great Awakening
1900/1910s
Populist/Progressive
1960/1970s
Civil Rights
Temperance in the 1840s
Only Maine
Part of daily life
Nativism
German/Irish immigrants
Factory owners + politicians want
worker output
Asylum Penitentiary Movement
Mentally ill= criminals
Women help mentally ill
Horace Mann
1840/1850s
Public education
Essential for Democratic government
Transcendentalism
Spiritual/Intellectual
Thoreau
Emerson
Not reform or mainstream
Abolitionism
Minority Whites
Huge impact
David Walker
pamphlet
resist slavery!
WIlliam Lloyd Garrison
Immediate emancipation
The Liberator
The Liberator
1830s
Will Lloyd Garrison
Most anti-slavery movements
gradual
already-slaves will remain slaves
Lovejoy Incident– abolitionist killed
Liberty Party
Abolitionists
1840
Anti-slavery was in the Constitution
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist
born into slavery
learn to read and write
powerful speaker
Southern defense of slavery
Northern “wage slaves”
It was in bible etc.
Women in antebellum society
intellectually inferior
Cult of domesticity
Femme Covert
give everything to husband when married