Section 1: America’s Spiritual Awakening

Section 2: Immigrants and Cities

Section 3: Reforming Society

Section 4: The Movement to End Slavery

Section 5: Women’s Rights

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New Movements in America

SECTION 1America’s Spiritual Awakening

Question:Who were the key people and what were the key ideas of the American romantic movement?

Definition of Romantic Movement

Influential Ideas

Focus of Work

Artists and Writers

SECTION 1America’s Spiritual Awakening

artistic movement that developed out of the movement in Europe, in which American painters and writers believed in bringing a simpler, more individual point of view to their works

romantic movement in Europe, spirituality, the simple life, nature, individual’s uniqueness

landscape, nature, history, slavery, American individualism and democracy

Thomas Cole, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman

SECTION 2

Immigrants and Cities

Question:What were the problems and benefits of growing U.S. cities in the mid-1800s?

SECTION 2

Immigrants and Cities

Growth of U.S. Cities

Problems Benefits

• overcrowding• poorly built housing• poor sanitation• no permanent fire or police

force• diseases and epidemics• lack of public services

• job opportunities• growth of middle class• entertainment and cultural

life

SECTION 3

Reforming Society

Question:What were the causes and effects of the American temperance movement?

SECTION 3

Reforming Society

The Temperance MovementThe Temperance Movement

Cause: belief that alcohol abuse led to social problems, such as family violence, poverty, and criminal behavior

Cause: prevention of alcohol abuse

Cause: worry over the effects of alcohol

Effects:

Maine and 12 other states passed laws making the sale of alcohol illegal

SECTION 4

The Movement to End Slavery

Question:By what methods did abolitionists and supporters of slavery spread their messages?

SECTION 4

The Movement to End Slavery

Spreading the Message

Working to End Slavery Working to Keep Slavery

• speaking tours and lectures• newspapers• pamphlets and essays• poetry, plays, and slave

narratives• abolitionist societies• essays• petitions to Congress

• newspaper editorials• political speeches• threats to abolitionists• federal laws

SECTION 5

Women’s Rights

Question:What were the goals of the women’s rights movement and how did they hope to achieve these goals?

SECTION 5

Women’s Rights

Women’sRights

gain the right to vote

gain the right to sit on juries

take advantage of better educational

opportunities

married women get the right to control

their own property

getting mento take part in

the fight

organizingmore

effectively

Chapter Wrap-Up

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1. How did the Second Great Awakening affect reform movements of the mid-1800s?

2. How did U.S. immigration between 1840 and 1860 affect the economy?

3. Choose three of the following people and explain how they worked to end slavery: Robert Finley, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina and Sarah Grimk, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.

1. How did the Second Great Awakening affect reform movements of the mid-1800s?

2. How did U.S. immigration between 1840 and 1860 affect the economy?

3. Choose three of the following people and explain how they worked to end slavery: Robert Finley, David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina and Sarah Grimk, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.