Quick WriteWrite down the following questions on pg. 37 of your notebook. You have 5-10 minutes to respond to the following questions. You may answer in bullet points.

Should my tax dollars be used to educate other people’s kids? Why or why not?

Why institutionalize the mentally ill and not just lock them up with common prisoners?

Why did it take so long for women to get the right to vote?

Should drugs be legalized?

The Reform Movements EQ: What were the causes and effects of the reform movements that emerged in the nineteenth century?

The Second Great Awakening1st Great Awakening

1730s, emphasis on repenting sins, church membership grew

2nd Great Awakening

Americans join churches and attend revival meetings in record #s in 1820s and 1830s

Emphasis: Live well, work hard, do God’s work on earth

Reform EraTemperance Movement – alcohol awareness

Education Reforms – increased access to education

Prison Reforms – separate mentally ill

Urban Reform Many immigrants from

Germany and Ireland in mid 1800s

Worked in factories, lived in crowded apt buildings

Local boards of health were est.

Workers began to organize to demand better working conditions

Ten hour movement

Women’s RightsSeneca Falls Convention 1848

First women’s rights meetingOrganized by Lucretia

Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Declaration of Sentiments“All men and women

are created equal”

AbolitionAntislavery Efforts in the South

By 1850 250,000 freemenHelped others escapeSpoke out against slavery

Slave Uprisings - Nat Turner

Underground Railroad –

Informal constantly changing

network of escape routes

Abolition Movement in North

Slavery seen as morally wrong

American Anti-Slavery Society founded

Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke sisters, Frederick Douglass

Garrison Grimke Sisters Douglass

Kerry Washington Performs Sojourner Truth’s

“Ain’t I A Woman” speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no

Talk to your neighbor:

What were the causes and effects of the reform movements that emerged in the 19th century?