Second Great Awakening: begins a century of reform work in America

Reform work attacks poverty, alcoholism, illiteracy, abuse of women and declining moral values

Important people: Charles Finney: people have the power to

change themselves Lyman Beecher: good people make a good

nation

Temperance: an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption Caused people to

lose control Threat to family

life

What was “the pledge”? Name a group that was

active in ending alcohol consumption.

Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

What did they speak against?

How did people react to the radical abolitionists?

Abolition: movement to end slavery

Key Figures: Nat Turner:

organized a slave revolt in Virginia

Harriet Beecher Stowe: wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that criticized slavery

Describe the first reaction to feminism.

What happened in Seneca Falls, NY?

What did the Declaration of Sentiment state?

Did women get any rights after the Declaration?