From the 1820s to the Civil War, our

nation witnessed several new reform

movements.
 Religious Revival:
The Second
The renewal of strong
Great
Awakening
religious faith in the
1790s and early 1800s.
Sermons focused on
salvation, reform, and
repairing moral injustices.
How did this revival of
religion lead Americans to
want to reform Society?
What was wrong with
society?
Abolitioni
sts
?
Believed slavery
was morally
wrong and
wanted to end it.
Who were famous
Abolitionists?

Fredrick Douglass,
Sojourner Truth,
Grimke Sisters,
Harriet Tubman,
William Lloyd
Garrison, Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Abolitionists
William Lloyd Harriet Tubman:
Garrison: A conductor on the
Published The Underground
Liberator, a newspaper Railroad a secret
calling for the end to network to help
slavery slaves escape to the
north
Sojourner Truth: Frederick
A former slave who Douglass:
escaped and later Former slave who
became an evangelist became an eloquent
and reformer who
Abolitionist speaker.
applied her intense
He published the
religious beliefs to the
North Star. Spoke
abolitionist and
women's rights
to U.S. government
movements. concerning slavery.
Improved Treatment of
the
Many Mentally Illwere locked in
mentally ill patients
unheated rooms, chained to their beds and
beaten into obedience.

Dorothea Dix led the fight

for the better treatment of
the mentally ill and
campaigned for general
prison reform.
Temperance
Movement Organized groups
worked to stop the
drinking of alcohol.
What was
happening in society
that made people
fight for this reform?
How did the
Industrial Revolution
make temperance
more important?
 Education:
The Common
School
Movement
Horace Mann fought
to provide- education
for everyone. He and
other reformers wanted
American children of all
social classes-to have
the same opportunities
for a public education.
Womens Rights
Movement
Womens Rights
Women began to see the lack of inequality and
Movement
opportunity as a serious problem that needed
reform.
Who were the reformers who organized the Seneca Falls
Convention in New York in 1848?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B.
Anthony
This convention passed the Declaration of Sentiments
and Resolutions which was a major turning point in and
called for men to not withhold a womans rights, take her
property, or refuse her the right to vote.
Supporters of the Womens Rights Movement also support
what other reform movement in the 1800s?
Abolitionist movement
What specifically did Womens rights activists want for
women?
Suffrage (the right to vote)
Womens Rights
Movement
Susan B. Anthony became active in
temperance, but was not allowed to
speak at temperance rallies because
she was a woman. This experience,
and her acquaintance with Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, led her to join the
women's rights movement in 1852.
Soon after, she dedicated her life to
womens rights.
Sarah Grimk and Angelina
Grimk, known as the Grimk
sisters, were American Quakers,
educators and writers who were early
advocates of
abolitionism and womens rights.