The Second Great Awakening“Spiritual Reform From

Within”[Religious Revivalism]

“Born Again Christians”

Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality

Temperance

No DrunksAsylum &

Penal Reform

Education

No Dummies

Women’s Rights

No Discrimination

Abolitionism

No Cruelty

Second Great Awakening• Encouraged new reform movements!!!!

Let’s use all of our newfound religious inspiration to battle

evil!!! Right-o!!!!

The Mormons(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)

Joseph Smith (1805-1844)

1846-47: Mormons move to Utah

Brigham Young

(1801-1877))

Educational ReformHorace Mann - “Father of

American Education”

•Children should be “molded” to a state of perfection.

•Promoted more schools, expanded curriculum.

Educational ReformNoah Webster

•Dictionary helped standardize the American language.

*** Slaves in the South were legally forbidden from learning to read

and write.

Penitentiary ReformDorothea Dix

(1802-1887)

•Mental health reform.•Helped establish that insanity was a disease of the mind.

Dorothea Dix Asylum - 1849

Temperance – The Drunkard’s Progress“From the first glass to the grave”, 1846

Women in Revolt

• 1848 – Seneca Falls Convention• Declaration of Sentiments: “All men and

women are created equal.”

Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Transcendentalism

Ralph WaldoEmerson

Henry DavidThoreau

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – people had the right to disobey unjust laws.

Truth transcends the senses

Self-relianceSelf-improvement

Thanks, Henry! Thanks, Henry!

Don’t mention it!

Civil disobedience – Can you think

of any historical figures that

may have been influenced by

Thoreau’s writings?

Which reform movement do you think was the most significant? Why?

• Were there any that this presentation missed?

ABOLITIONISTS!!!!!