Essential Question :

1. Essential Question: • How did the Second Great Awakening influence each social reform during this time? Warm-Up Question: What was life like during the Industrial Age? Standard: 7. C. Explain the influence of the Second Great Awakening on social reform movements, including temperance, public education, and women’s efforts to gain suffrage.

2. Antebellum Reforms Learning Groups • In your groups: • Examine the placards in the 4 “problems” & 4 “reforms”, examine the primary sources, & guess what the problem/reform is • Match each problem with the appropriate reform on notes sheet • On the back of your chart, you can draw a visual representation of each reform OR write (at least 3 sentences) about how these reforms still influence our lives today. • EQ: How did the Second Great Awakening influence each social reform during this time?

3. When you’re finished.. • You have two options: Option 1 : On the back of your sheet, draw your own representation of the problem/reform. Option 2: Write about a situation in today’s society that is connected to these reforms.

4. The Problem: Low Church Attendance • By 1800, church membership in was low & falling; Just 1 out of 15 people in America was a member of a church • Poverty, crime, & immorality seemed to be increasing at an alarming rate

5. …[There are many people] who know that they ought to be religious, but they are afraid if they become [faithful] they shall be laughed at by their companions. Many are wedded to idols, others are procrastinating repentance. Such persons never will give up their false shame…until they are so excited that they cannot contain themselves any longer. —Evangelist Charles Finney

6. The Reform: Second Great Awakening • In the early 1800s, evangelists like Charles Finney led religious revivals called the Second Great Awakening: • Highly emotional “camp meetings” with thousands in attendance • Preachers talked about forgiveness of sin & acting morally • By 1850, 1 in 6 Americans was a member of a church

8. The Problem: Alcohol Abuse • By 1800, alcohol abuse was seen as a serious problem in America: • Whiskey was cheap to make & buy • By 1820, the typical adult American drank more than 7 gallons of alcohol per year (Today, its 2.6 gallons) • Alcohol was linked to crime, debt, domestic abuse, & unproductive employees

10. The Reform: Temperance • One of the first reforms movements was temperance—to get people to stop drinking: • Women played an important role in the temperance movement • Reformers convinced people to make a “pledge” to not drink • From 1820 to 1830, drinking fell from 7 gallons per person per year to 3 gallons on average

12. The Problem: Women Have Few Rights • By 1800, women’s rights were limited by the Cult of Domesticity: • Women were expected to oversee the family & home while their husbands worked to provide money • Married women had no property rights & could not file for divorce • Women could not vote, run for political office, or sue in court

13. Women were unable to vote • Single women could own her own property • Married women had no control over her property or her children • Women could not initiate divorce • Women could not sign a contract or sue in court without her husband’s permission

14. The Reform: Seneca Falls Convention • Women’s activism in other reforms led them to demand women’s rights: • In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention & proclaimed that “allmen&womenarecreatedequal” (in the Declaration of Sentiments) • They demanded the right to vote • Women did not gain this right until the 19th Amendment in 1920

15. “Men and women were CREATED EQUAL; they are both moral and accountable beings, and whatever is right for a man to do, is right for a woman to do. What then can woman do for the slave, when she herself is under the feet of man and shamed into silence.”—Sarah & Angelina Grimké, 1840

16. The Problem: Lack of Education • By 1800, the U.S. did not have a true education system for children: • Massachusetts & Vermont were the only states with compulsory (mandatory) attendance laws • In most state schools, classrooms were not divided by grade or age • Few children attended school past the age of 10 years old

17. “The elementary schools throughout the state are irresponsible institutions, established by individuals, from mere motives of private [profit], who are sometimes [lacking] character…and abilities. Ignorance, inattention, and even immorality, prevail to a [sad] extent among their teachers.”—Working Man's Advocate, 1830

18. The Reform: Education Reform • In the 1830s, education reformers demanded that states create public schools for children using tax money • Horace Mann helped create teacher-training & curriculum programs • By 1850, every state had publically-funded schools (but schools in the South & far West were not very good)

20. Reviewing Key Themes

21. Assignment • Find 5 current news articles regarding reform movements that are similar to the 5 Antebellum reform movements.